THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

With over 450 comments and an estimated 3,500 plus hits on the blog, 12 Days has ended, but people reading the stories hasn’t. And the paperback book isn’t even out yet! I’m not even sure where to start to begin thanking all the writers, readers, and commenters who made this project bigger and better than [...]

All the stories. . .

Here is a list with link to all the stories posted here on 12 Days!  If you haven’t ready any yet or just one two, be sure to check them all out. . . trust me, it’s like nothing you’ve ever read before in an anthology! And early 2010, we will have the paperback book [...]

Book Beat

by Deirdre M. Murphy At first, it is just a soft rhythmic sound, like someone dropping three books on a table, one after another.  Then it is repeated, three beats and a pause, three beats and a pause, a deliberate rhythm intruding on the quiet, continuing like an alien heartbeat, barely muffled by the aisles [...]

The Thirteenth Drummer

by Jim Wisneski The triangle.  A strange intersection in the main part of my small town, where five roads somehow crossed each other with only one set of traffic lights.      This was the place where every Christmas the town put up their annual Christmas tree, where Santa Claus came to town on a horse [...]

Eleven Pipers Piping

by Clive Martyn The caravan was dark, the black velvet curtains kept out all the meagre light that came into the Piazza, which itself had been draped in shadows for most of the day. A few candles in small urns hung around the edges of the room casting a flickering light over the piles of [...]

Beautiful Noise

by Laura Frechette       If you have ever been in an orchestra, you already know how the different sections have a bond. Percussionists, strings, woodwinds; they all usually keep together outside of rehearsal and performances. The symphony orchestra in this story was no different.     It was December and the orchestra had just finished their annual [...]

The Tenth Lord

by Emma Newman             Only when she was certain that her grandmother was engrossed in her baking did Beth lift the edge of the embroidery canvas and peep underneath. The piece of paper was still there, tucked into the frame where she had hidden it that morning. She dropped the fabric, heart thrumming urgently. A [...]

Leap to the Sky

by Devin Kennedy I “You call that leaping? My eighty year old grandmother leaps higher than the whole lot of you! And, she’s got arthritis in both her knees!” Screamed a tiny bald man adorned in purple. “Leap like you mean it! Where is your passion?!” I tried to stifle a laugh; the entire premise [...]

Nine Ladies Dancing

by Michelle Dennis Evans It really was one of those mystical magical moments. A moment I will remember and cherish forever. You see, most people would have passed by but we didn’t and that’s why I have such fond memories, like when the love of your life notices you for the first time, that innocent [...]

Happy Sunsets

by Marisa Birns   The women stood together in their pajamas and watched as the body was placed in the ambulance. “That’s Ethel.” One of them whispered. “She’s the third one this month.” Another added. An attendant came over to shoo them away from the driveway. Maude, the de facto leader of the small group [...]