Holiday Flash Fiction Carnival!

Sweet. I must get to writing then, huh?

Excellent! I was hoping this would get the green light!

I can probably be convinced to join in...

Laurie, I personally would LOVE to see something based on a Sri Lankan winter holiday as I know almost nothing about the folklore and traditions there. But really, I'd just like to read more of your work.

valeenc said:

Laurie, I personally would LOVE to see something based on a Sri Lankan winter holiday as I know almost nothing about the folklore and traditions there. But really, I'd just like to read more of your work.

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I'll take the compliment, for sure. Thanks!


But, there's one problem... There's no winter here. We have monsoon. We have not monsoon. Then we have monsoon again. Then we have not monsoon again. That's the four seasons of the year. No winter. Heck, no spring or fall, either.

Christmas (Christian, of course), on the other hand, is doable. Eid (Muslim) is supposed to be on December 21st (or 20th?) this year, but it's on a lunar-based calendar, so it varies year to year. Last year, it was in January. Then there are Poya days (Buddhist), but those are every month and based on full moons, so again, the date varies every year, and the major ones the last few years have been in April to August. There are no Jews here that I'm aware of, so no Hanukkah. I'm not sure what, if any, Hindu holidays there might be at this time of year...

New Years. Well, New Years is celebrated on Dec 31st/January 1st here, but it's a very small and minor New Year's celebration as compared to the Tamil & Sinhala New Years on April 14th - that's the big one.

So, a little bit difficult to accommodate your request...

*laughs* Yeah, well, it's the season for it, alright. Only 11 days away, and we had heavy flooding monsoon rain today...

Hmm...I think I want to do this. Now I just have to write something. I'll go do that now.

AAAAACK I just found about this AAAAAACK

Then again, I found out about the last AW fiction carnival five days before it started, and still managed to write something decent. (See siggy.)

I would love to join.

(Just finished first draft, ~1200 words.)

By the way, a question -- is profanity not allowed? F bomb gets dropped a couple times. The main character is a bit rough around the edges.

I'll do my best to whip something up. I'll let you know.

Thanks for the answer!

It's not looking good for me being able to do anything this time. I'm just too backed up with writing for pay with a looming deadline.

Okay, BG. We am done! Email sent.

I started writing mine last night so it looks like I'll actually get it in on time. Yay!

DonnaDuck said:

I started writing mine last night so it looks like I'll actually get it in on time. Yay!

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Yay!

It's so demented too. So me.

Just Posted How to Stress Out in Time for Christmas...

I steamrolled through a bunch of them--great reading, and very amusing!

I still have to finish commenting on the last carnival and finish my story for this one. I think I wrote the last paragraph last night while half asleep so I'm going to have to do some major editing before I post it. Hopefully I can get it in tonight. If not then tomorrow for sure.