Starsky & Hutch Advent Calendar 2017

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Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past

Christmas time in Bay City was a study in contradictions. Jolly bell-ringing Santas in red, short sleeve shirts basked on the sunlit corners of the bustling city. They could be seen taking a break in the shade with a cold can of soda instead of stomping off snowy boots and warming up to a steamy hot chocolate. Snowmen made of Styrofoam graced the front store windows of pricey boutiques instead of decorating the Currier and Ives perfect yards of merry families. Palm trees swayed in the seasonal heat while Christmas firs and spruces for sale, sprayed with fake snow from a can, huddled in the corners of steamy parking lots.

Hutch shivered from the air conditioning and snuggled into his flannel overshirt as he lounged in his favorite booth at Huggy’s. He raised his empty glass of vodka and tonic, twist of lime, high in the air. Hutch blinked twice as the twinkling Christmas lights that decorated the bar reflected in his glass.

“It looks like a glass of Christmas rainbows, Starsk. You’d like that. If you were here… but you’re not.”

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Author’s Note: – Some X-Files background: at the end of Season 7, FBI Agent Fox Mulder disappeared. His partner, Agent Dana Scully, pregnant with his child, knew he’d been abducted but nothing more. The viewing audience though, during S8, had glimpses of the torture/torment Mulder suffered. His body was eventually dumped in a field and Scully, plus Assistant Director Walter Skinner, were the principal mourners at his burial.

On April 1, 2001, Deadalive aired. Formerly deceased abductees began coming back to life and Skinner ordered Mulder’s body exhumed. It was, and he was hospitalized.

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