Last Christmas

A Nikki Ashburne Short Story

by Dayle A. Dermatis

Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts. In fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends.

But when four 1980s British partiers disrupt her family’s Alpine Christmas—a holiday already fraught with tension—Nikki must play mediator, otherwise for someone, it might be their last Christmas.

Another story in the popular Nikki Ashburneurban fantasy series. Come for the ghosts. Stay for the snark.

“Last Christmas” is part of Uncollected Anthology, Volume 23: Supernatural Soirees

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About the Author

Dayle A. Dermatis is the author or coauthor of many novels (including snarky urban fantasies Ghosted and the forthcoming Shaded and Spectered) and more than a hundred short stories in multiple genres, appearing in such venues as Fiction River, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and DAW Books.

Called the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also guest edits anthologies for Fiction River, and her own short fiction has been lauded in many year's best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.

She lives in a book- and cat-filled historic English-style cottage in the wild greenscapes of the Pacific Northwest. In her spare time she follows Styx around the country and travels the world, which inspires her writing.

To find out where she’s wandered off to (and to get free fiction!), check out DayleDermatis.com and sign up for her newsletter or support her on Patreon.