"Jack's Gift" is a quirky, delightful seasonal short story just posted on Futurismic, about the rise of the artificial, institutionalized Santa:
"Still, lots of people signed up for the UDS Santa. More than UDS expected. They had to hurry and convert a lot more trucks into sleighs, and find a lot more drivers. They didn't have time to train them all. And their shipment of fat suits came in late, so a lot of the Santas were, uh, a little thin."
Sandra frowned. "Santa is fat!"
"I know, I know," David said. "But the big problem was all the drunk Santas, running over the hedges in their eight-ton trucks, scraping the side of Dad's Mercedes as they parked in the driveway, making passes at Mom once they were in the house–"
(Thanks, Jeremy!)
