Four Alternative Christmas Presents — Tam MacNeil

It's Christmas Eve, and newly minted superhero Matt AKA Strong Man is in the middle of taking down one of Central City's most notorious criminals, the mesmerist and villain Dr. Destructo. It's Matt's first mission, and he's working with his idol and secret crush, Jake X-Ray. He doesn't want anything to go wrong. Unfortunately for him, everything goes wrong. Soon Matt finds himself racing through alternative presents, trying to capture Dr. Destructo and trying to figure out why all the Matts in these other scenarios have the one thing he really wantsa relationship with Jake. A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Advent Calendar package "Sleigh Ride".