This is an invitation for you all to curl up with me next to the fire with a laptop/smart phone/whatever in hand and enjoy some delicious morsels of fiction as we digest enough food to see us through a small-scale nuclear war:

First up, there’s the iplayer catch-up of Calum Kerr’s Christmas story selection.

Speaking of catching up, Ben Judge has been holding a three-sentence fiction contest.

Of course there’s a festive dose of tales from 330 words.

And finally, for those craving still shorter fiction, why not follow the hashtag #ItalicXmas for surreal micro-fiction from Fat Roland.