Christmas Magic: Short Stories from Award-Winning Fantasy Writers
With any anthology you will have hits and misses. The best was Nina Kiriki Hoffman's "LaZelle Family Christmas". For me this was the only one that had the feel of Christmas Spirit. Each LaZelle family member, both magically gifted and normal pitches in with their unique talents to prepare for Christmas, and in the process each one grows a little. One misogynist story that I hated had a woman being sexually harrassed by this greasy character and she ended up trapped with him - Yeah - Merry Christmas - Yuck. "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan was one of the better stories. A revolution is fomented when observers from another world start sharing Earth holidays, like Christmas, and then MLK day! I really wish there'd been more stories with Christmas Spirit atmosphere.