Exactly 7 days to Christmas Day! I actually had to go to the mall and tell Santa what I wanted as I get a feeling I'm not getting anything from this lot  

Curious, what percentage of shopping did you do in lets say online, brick and mortar stores, and/or local merchants instead of national chains? I ask since I really didn't look at the other two options. Amazon delivers my presents to my work and I go home and just wrap the boxes  Lazy, I know.

Well in the effort to conserve heat, it is freezing here and getting worse, I'm going to whip through the wrap up and climb back under the covers of my bed. If anyone wants to join me to share heat, and nothing else, let me know  

Monday, our review team put up another fantastic story for all of us to read:

Wednesday/Thursday (time zones ), Val let you all know about the voting for next year's Anthology Theme. You have until the 27th of December to get your vote in. Every vote counts  

Friday our prompt team gave us to conflicting prompts IMHO. Or, are they conflicting? I guess it is determined by the ending  

Saturday, Comicality was talking about drinking Jack Daniels on the rocks, The Slow Burn. Oh, that isn't what it was about? Maybe I should go read it  

Let's see how our December goals are. These could go two different directions; first being more time for authors to write and readers to read, or authors and readers are too busy and don't have the time to do what they love.  

Here is December and the fast approaching end of 2022.

Words Of Day  Better late then never  

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Blog Opportunities

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And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets!

Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories

1. On Fire by Cia

Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. The Cockney Canuck by Dodger
2. Flying Circus by Carlos Hazday **Complete**
3. The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus
4. Winter Haven's Dyrpath by Cia
5. a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus
6. Gap Year by Mark Arbour
7. The Cat Burglar by Aditus

Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. The Wrong Guy by Kyle Aarons **Complete**
2. Taking Off the Mask by Ronyx
3. Desperado by Dabeagle

Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

1. Tales of Inanimate Objects by astone2292

Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Goofy-foot by Geron Kees **Complete** 
2. Merry Christmas, Baby by Ajbt2001 **Complete**
3. ARROW by CLJobe
4. Ark II by R. Eric
5. Solitary by RichEisbrouch
6. Chasing Rusty Parker by Laura S. Fox
7. Oklahoma! - Deleted Scenes by Refugium
8. Plattenbau by Thirdly
9. Unspoken by Late to the party
10. Coming of Age by Tim Hobson
11. The Second Circlet: The Old Places by MrM
12. Maddog & The Pope (Learning to fly on Broken Wings) by Georgie DHainaut
13. The English Year by Jwolf
14. Caliban and Miranda by Refugium **Complete**
15. A Metabolic Malady (parody lyric) by Refugium **Complete**
16. Stolen: Unearthing the Lore by lomax61
17. Love Is Everything by Ajbt2001
18. The Icebox by JujuTheDruid
19. Lord Edwin by quokka **Complete**
20. Heat by MythOfHappiness
21. Gilgamesh in a Nutshell by Refugium **Complete**
22. A Slice of Life by Xfighter1984

Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)