BlogFestivus 2011

For December 1st through the 12th of 2011, Blogdramedy set up a short story challenge and called it BlogFestivus.

The rules were simple. Each day, write a 144-word story incorporating that day’s gift from the song, “Twleve Days of Christmas.”

Below is a set of links pointing to each of my entries for the challenge.

As it happened, something about writing short led to a lot of characters dying off, so I created a table to track my body count:

Day	Body Count	Possible Moral
Day 1	0	Don’t land in a tree when parachuting with a bag full of money.
Day 2	2	Beware of pretty shiny things.
Day 3	2	Don’t let taunts get to you. Also, don’t play with explosives.
Day 4	1	Don’t mess with the birds.
Day 5	0	Fantasy doth not the place of reality take.
Day 6	2	Beware of falling in love with a goose.
Day 7	0	When a wise old witch-owl speaks, it pays to listen.
Day 8	7	Eat lightly and carry a big sword.
Day 9	301	Don’t attend a party hosted by someone who welds doors.
Day 10	0	Don’t underestimate your own strength.
Day 11	0	Don’t put the windows before the plumbing. Or, water always wins.
Day 12	12	Don’t take drumming gigs for witches. (Thanks, Lisleman.)
Total	327	Beware of the dark side during BlogFestivus.

I was joined in this insanity by my fellow BlogFestivus participants:

dancing newtons – a guest post | Fix it or Deal says:

February 13, 2012 at 4:38 am

[...] That someone is Dan who blogs over at Random Says. You may remember Dan from his contributions to BlogFestivus last December (also known as The Great Bird Apocalypse of 2011). So, I’m going to step back [...]