Ott on a Limb and The Celestial Buffet — Susan Dunlap

Two riveting short stories from award-winning author Susan DunlapOtt on a LimbOn Christmas Eve, homicide detective Jill Smith chooses to decline the Christmas party invitations and instead respond to an unusual call from The Herman Ott Detective Agency. Ott has a favor to ask Smith: catch the mysterious Santa Claus who has been leaving cryptic gifts at Ott's office. The Santa has promised to make one final visit on Christmas Eve, bearing a gift that will destroy Herman Ott's carefully constructed reputation.…The Celestial BuffetAfter seeing her own lifeless body on the living room floor and floating upward and away, a woman finds herself in a peculiar place with an enormous buffet. Is it heaven? The banquet, the delicious-smelling food, and the seemingly endless variety and supply of it would suggest a heavenly place. But then she hears laughing, a cackle she remembers vividly…and she begins to fear the worst.…