12 Days of Christmas, series at Spillwords.com

A series, consisting of different authors and different literary works that embrace the Christmas Holiday, and the joy of this season.

Up In The Sky

Shelagh Sutton·December 22, 2025

Up In The Sky written by: Shelagh Sutton - In the wide corridor, Éabha leaps from one orange square to the next...

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·5 mins read

The Morning Star

Jon Negroni·December 21, 2025

The Morning Star written by: Jon Negroni - The snow had come in the night and done it clean...

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·17 mins read

The Light We Keep

Itunu Taiwo·December 20, 2025

The Light We Keep written by: Itunu Taiwo - From her kitchen window, Sade watched as the last light bulb...

12 Days of Christmas Featured Post English Literature Christmas

·5 mins read

The Great Christmas Caper

David McLain·December 19, 2025

The Great Christmas Caper written by: David McLain - I was twelve years old the year that we pulled off the great Christmas caper...

English 12 Days of Christmas Literature Christmas Featured Post

·24 mins read

This is Our Christmas

David Milner·December 18, 2025

This is Our Christmas written by: David Milner - It wasn’t as busy as he had anticipated, but what did he know? He coughed...

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·5 mins read

Ghost of a Christmas Past

Jim Bartlett·December 17, 2025

Ghost of a Christmas Past written by: Jim Bartlett - Two Days Before Christmas Just outside Dunedin, New Zealand...

English Christmas Featured Post 12 Days of Christmas Literature

·30 mins read

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea

Jennifer Kelly·December 16, 2025

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea written by: Jennifer Kelly - When the rainy season ended, relenting to light and birdsong...

12 Days of Christmas Christmas English Featured Post Literature

·4 mins read

Cieder Muld and the Boy

Pedro La Fuego·December 15, 2025

Cieder Muld and the Boy A Christmas tale written by: Pedro la Fuego - It was the night before Christmas, and the boy’s head was full of presents,..

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·17 mins read

The Leaves of Diablo

Amy B. Logan·December 14, 2025

The Leaves of Diablo written by: Amy B. Logan - “It just ain’t right,” Sam muttered, looking out of the kitchen window. “It ain’t natural.”...

Christmas Featured Post English 12 Days of Christmas Literature

·12 mins read

Broken Halo Blues

Richard Wall·December 13, 2025

Broken Halo Blues written by: Richard Wall - The snow came down like spilled ash, a grey powder that stuck to nothing but the cracks...

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·11 mins read

A Chicago Carol

Nathan Perrin·December 24, 2024

A Chicago Carol written by: Nathan Perrin - December 15, 1967 - Stanley Redlaw, mid-sixties, close to retirement...

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·65 mins read

Home is Where the Heart is

Jim Bates·December 23, 2024

Home is Where the Heart is written by: Jim Bates - "Mommy, I want that one and that one...

English 12 Days of Christmas Literature Featured Post Christmas

·35 mins read

Cardinal Wings

Madison Henry·December 22, 2024

Cardinal Wings written by: Madison Henry - Christmas begins with an early morning and lots of prep work...

Christmas English 12 Days of Christmas Literature Featured Post

·29 mins read

The Happy Little Christmas Tree

Bob Lazzar-Atwood·December 21, 2024

The Happy Little Christmas Tree written by: Bob Lazzar-Atwood A happy little Christmas tree Stood proudly in...

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·1 min read

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

Features

Up In The Sky

The Morning Star

The Light We Keep

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Dmitriy Belyanin

Spotlight On Writers – Miroslava Panayotova

Interview Q&A With Jim Bartlett

Up In The Sky

The Christmas Cottage

Where Could She Be?

12 Days of Christmas

Up In The Sky

The Morning Star

The Light We Keep

The Great Christmas Caper

This is Our Christmas

Ghost of a Christmas Past

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea

Cieder Muld and the Boy

The Leaves of Diablo

Broken Halo Blues

A Chicago Carol

Home is Where the Heart is

Cardinal Wings

The Happy Little Christmas Tree

Ghost of a Christmas Past

This is Our Christmas

The Great Christmas Caper

The Morning Star

Up In The Sky

The White Robe of Noelle

Ode to the Birth of a King

Podcast 90 Degrees North

Santa Eats Ice Cream

Up In The Sky

The Christmas Cottage

The Christmas Cake