title: Bad Santas: Disquieting Winter Folk Tales for Grown-Ups
author: Paul Hawkins
description: Paul Hawkins is a lecturer in English and a musician. His band Paul Hawkins &amp; The Awkward Silences have recorded sessions for BBC Radio 1 and played events at Tate Britain and London's South Bank Centre, as well as the Latitude Festival.
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  Copyright© 2015 Angelique Voisen
   
   
   ISBN: 978-1-77233-621-4
   
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  Editor: JS Cook
   
   
   
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  DEDICATION
   
  I hope you enjoy Pat and Jacob’s story.  Stay warm and safe during the winter.
   
  
  MATE WANTED FOR CHRISTMAS
   
   
  Angelique Voisen
   
  Copyright © 2015
   
   
   
  Chapter One
   
  Pat
   
  I don’t remember tossing the alarm clock with such force it shattered to a hundred pieces, but I
  hear the sound. Groaning, I turn in my sheets. W