Bonanza Brand wishes to thank faust for her time and effort in coordinating and hosting our Fourth Annual Advent Calendar.
Thank you to those who contributed:
Silver Sven, Questfan, faust, DJK, PSW, Belle, SKLamb, wx4rmk, Puchi Ann, Lizabeth, Patina, AC 1830, Sierra Girl, Cheaux, Sibylle, JC, Indiana, BluewindFarm, mumu74
Click any of the story title links below to reach the story, links to the next day are included at the bottom of each post.
December 1 – Silver Sven
Late Return
December 2 – Questfan
The Wrangler
December 3 – faust
Merry & Bright
December 4 – DJK
Wrapping the Present
December 5 – PSW
The Christmas Poem
December 6 – Belle
The Christmas Hostage
December 7 – Belle
Small Print
December 8 – Sklamb
Second Sunday
December 9 – Questfan
A Debt of Kindness
December 10 – wx4rmk
The Christmas Tree Surprise
December 11 – AC1830
A Splendid Laugh
December 12 – Puchi Ann
The Ghost of Christmas
December 13 – Lizabeth
The Secret Santas
December 14 – Patina
The Tipping Point
December 15 – AC 1830
Christmas Child
December 16 – Sierra Girl
A Christmas Miracle
December 17 – Cheaux
Reflections
December 18 – Cheaux
Good Intentions and Unplanned Consequences
December 19 – Sibylle
Christmas Decorations
December 20 – JC2
The Last Gift of Christmas
December 21 – Indiana
First Christmas in Boston, 1848
December 22 – BluewindFarm
A Thawing Heart
December 23 – PSW
The Quiet of Christmas
December 24 – mumu74
Naughty or Nice
Below is the list of quotes our writers were challenged to use within their story.
Dec. 1 – Silver Sven – “I don’t know what day of the month it is! … I don’t know anything.”
Dec. 2 – Questfan – “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.”
Dec. 3 – faust – “What reason have you to be merry?”
Dec. 4 – DJK – “I’ll retire to Bedlam.”
Dec. 5 – PSW – “He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; To make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”
Dec. 6 – Belle – “Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask, but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?”
Dec. 7 – Belle – “It’s all right, it’s all true, it all happened”
Dec. 8 – Sklamb – “Now, I’ll tell you what, my friend. I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.”
Dec. 9 – Questfan – “It’s not my business. It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”
Dec. 10 – wx4rmk – “Remove me from this place.”
Dec. 11 – AC1830 – “Really, for a man who had been out of practise for so many years it was a splendid laugh!”
Dec. 12 – Puchi Ann – “You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are.”
Dec. 13 – Lizabeth – “I’d rather not.”
Dec. 14 – Patina – “Bah humbug.”
Dec. 15 – AC 1830 – “I’m as giddy as a drunken man”
Dec. 16 – Sierra Girl – “Yes, quite dead. As a doornail.”
Dec. 17 – Cheaux – “I am not the man I was.”
Dec. 18 – Cheaux – “It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it and would unquestionably have done it too.”
Dec. 19 – Sibylle – “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
Dec. 20 – JC – “No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”
Dec. 21 – indiana – “The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”
Dec. 22 – Bluewindfarm – “He was conscious of a thousand odors floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.”
Dec. 23 – PSW – “But his own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
Dec. 24 – mumu74 – “Yes! Yes I do! I like Christmas! I love Christmas!”
Note 1: The Advent Calendar is hosted and first published in the Bonanza Brand Forums; and even though some of the contributions might not meet the Brand Library eligibility guidelines, the requirements were waived for these creations since we wanted to share the entire Calendar with our readers.