Challenge
The Twelve Days of Christmas...
I did this last year, but I think that I'll bring it back this year too... Your mission here is to make a story titled after one of the verses of the classic song: A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE/ 2 TURTLE DOVES/ 3 FRENCH HENS/ 4 CALLING BIRDS/ 5 GOLDEN RINGS/ 6 GEESE A-LAYING/ 7 SWANS A-SWIMMING/ 8 MAIDS A-MILKING/ 9 LADIES DANCING/ 10 LORDS A-LEAPING/ 11 PIPERS PIPING/ 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING.
Choose one of these and write your short tale. It doesn't have to be about someone giving them as gifts. It doesn't even have to be about Christmas at all. For example, the 5 GOLDEN RINGS could be some sort of pirate quest for treasure, 11 PIPERS PIPING could be about an elementary orchestra recital, 3 FRENCH HENS could be about a farmer and his wife in France etc. Please take a look at the entries before you join the contest to make sure there are no duplicates. I might give some $Juice$ to the entries I like best!
12 drummers drumming
Their music brought life
To anyone who listened
Audience bowed and fans cried
How did a team once invincible
Shatter beyond repair?
Mary needed to find herself
Steve no longer wanted to play
Rob said he was getting old anyway
Starting a family was the dream of Fred
Off ran Anne and soon they wed
Ellie had too much going on in her head
Bob felt lost and joined the war
Tom was tired of living on tour
Jess decided that life had more
Never to return Pete slammed the door
Chris became a motorcycle man
And that left Dan who never had a plan
So there you have it
Now you see
The death of a sound
That made its lovers feel free
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