By Charles Stross
Brought to readers within the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a mystery British executive organisation charged with combating darkish interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in "Overtime," the Laundry is on a skeleton employees for Christmas—leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands among the area and annihilation by means of the object That Comes Down Chimneys. Written specifically for Tor.com's vacation season, Charles Stross's novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award. Charles Stross is the Hugo-winning writer of a few of the main acclaimed novels and tales of the final ten years, together with Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Halting nation, the "Merchant Princes" sequence starting with The relatives alternate, and the tale collections Toast and instant
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He spun around in a circle of fury, lashing out with both fists. "MOTHERFUCKER! We almost bought it! " Barris, standing visible by the side of the freeway with all its heavy traffic whizzing by, got out a little horn snuffbox of death tabs and took several. He passed the snuffbox to Luckman, who took a few, then passed it to Arctor. "Maybe that's what's fucking us up," Arctor said, declining irritably. " "Dope can't screw up an accelerator linkage and carb-idle adjustment," Barris said, still holding the snuffbox out to Arctor.
He'll flash on that and rap at us for days. Somebody got in who was hip to his device and cleverly unplugged it. So, he decided, if they find it unplugged I hope they think to plug it in, and not only that, make it run right. In fact, what they really should do is test out his whole detection system, run it through its cycle as thoroughly as they do their own, be absolutely certain it functions perfectly, and then wind it back to a blank state, a tablet on which nothing is inscribed but on which something would for sure be had anyone--themselves, for example--entered the house.
They may have left some. And he thought, Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then, briefly. Under very specialized conditions, such as today. Next thing, Barris will be reasoning that I lured everyone out of the house deliberately to permit secret intruders to accomplish their thing here. And later on he will discern why and who and everything else, and in fact maybe he already has. Had a while ago, in fact; long-enough ago to initiate sabotage and destruct actions on the cephscope, car, and God knows what else.