Ebenezer: A sequel of sorts

I shared this story over five weeks last December, and I’ve spent the year meaning to convert it into an audiobook, but what the heck, it’s Christmas.

Here is Ebenezer: A sequel of sorts to A Christmas Carol in podcast form. Download it, stream it, or find it on your favorite podcast player, and Merry Christmas!

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The official blurb:

Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas Eve. Then he meets a happy stranger who keeps Christmas in his heart year-round. Over a cup of coffee and a bowl of beef stew, the stranger offers to send three friends to Edmund who will show him the meaning of Christmas. Will the “friends” convince Edmund in time to salvage this Christmas and rescue his life?

People who are grumpy at Christmastime are often chided with, “Oh, don’t be such a Scrooge.” But Mr. Scrooge was a curmudgeon no longer when Charles Dicken’s immortal story concluded. This little tale endeavors to reclaim Mr. Scrooge not as he was before that fateful Christmas Eve – a silly old humbug – but as the good and generous man he was as he lived the rest of his days.

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And, of course, the pitch:

Once you hear the story you’re going to want to have your own personal copy of the book to have and to hold. Find it online at most reputable stores, or patronize your local independent bookstore that can order you a copy.

Here’s one place to find a signed edition.

May your days be merry and bright, and may this year be your happiest Christmas.

Uncle Warren’s Attic presents Ebenezer, Stave 5: ‘Boxing Day’

Will Edmund Filliput’s beloved, Isabella, come to breakfast with Edmund and the happy stranger on the day after Christmas? We find out in the gentle conclusion of Ebenezer: A sequel of sorts to A Christmas Carol.

Of course, this podcast series has been partially an attempt to encourage you to purchase your own keepsake copy of the book, now available in electronic, hardcover and softcover formats. But it’s also my Christmas gift to the universe, a sweet little story that I am proud to have been the human funnel for. For the last five weeks I have been reading you a chapter a week. It only has five chapters, so here’s the end, just in time for Christmas, my present to you and yours.

I spent the first half of 2023 in a nightmare and the second half of 2023 in mourning. I am not going to list 2023 among my 70 favorite years (I’m finishing off my 71st).

But 2023 is also the year I completed Ebenezer: A sequel of sorts to A Christmas Carol, and I am grateful to the God of the universe for distracting me from my sorrow to help me concoct a joyful story of redemption to brighten this season of light a little more.

(P.S. Sharp listeners will catch a cameo appearance by Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars, under the last line of the story.)

To hear the whole story:

STAVE 1

STAVE 2

STAVE 3

STAVE 4

Meet the authors

I’m tickled to have been invited to sit in with two other local authors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today (Saturday, Dec. 16) at OtherWorld Books and More, a fun store at 41 N. Third Ave., Sturgeon Bay.

Patrick Baird has just released The Epsilon Passage, sequel to his military space saga The Nowhere Navy, and Erik Lange will have his new book Eternity’s Rising. I will be there with my little Christmas story Ebenezer: A sequel of sorts to A Christmas Carol.

Come on down, talk to the writers, buy our books and ask us to sign them for you, but browse through the store, chat with Margaret and David, and don’t go home without some nifty presents for yourself and your loved ones.

I’m looking forward to seeing you!