Between 2am EST and 6am EST on May 26, the wizards who provide our hosting will be casting a new integrity spell on the rack-mounted totem that contains all of our characters. This is done to ensure not too many of them escape or cause too much havoc on our realm. It may be difficult to reach the sites with your computer as they perform this ritual but if you are able to peer into ethereal realms, you shouldn’t have a problem. If not, I'd suggest you use your own wizardry and save a few chapters locally to get you through.

This ritual should take about 30 minutes for most of our sites. Maybe about a DAY for The Story Lover's Home as Dragons are much more difficult to contain and really do like messing with the wizards. <snicker> 

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, both in lost reading time and should you become overrun with the group who plans out this time of year to escape normally. Our hopes and gratitude go out to the wizards tasked with this responsibility!

Merry Christmas Everyone,

We have quite a few Very, and I do mean Very Interesting Stories; it seems a few of our authors decided to attempt to include all of our themes in their stories, it will be up to you the readers to decide if they pulled it off. 

So, without further ado here is the list of authors that graced us with their stories this year, and they are in reverse alphabetical order:  Zarek Dragon, True Fan, The Story Lover, Sean E., Jeff P. and Ilúvantír. Their stories run from short to long, and everything in between.

So enjoy reading them.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad, Happy Kwanzaa, Holy Ramadan, Frohe Weihnachten! , Christmas Alegre! , Joyeux Noel!,God Jul! , Glaedelig Jul! , Nadolig Llawen, Gledelig Jul, Nollaig Shona Duit, Mele Kalikimaka.

Dear Readers and Authors,

Don't forget your submissions are due tonight. 

And don't worry if you don't receive an acknowledgement right away there is a bad cold bug sweeping through the North Pole, but have no fear we will get all of the submissions posted on Chrismas Day.  (Since we may be sleeping and not watching our inbox ((hint, hint) your late entries juts might get posted.) Unfortunately, due to our bad cold, we won't be able to edit any of the submissions.

The Themes for this year's Christmas Short Story Event are as follows:  All I Want For Christmas Is, What Christmas Means To Me, and My Favourite Denny's® Christmas.

The Guidelines are very simple as usual:

1. Stories should be between 500 and 15,000 words give or take a million words.
2. All Submissions should have the author's initials appended to the end of the Filename.
3. All submissions are due by Sunday, December 22nd at Midnight PST.
4. This event is open to any reader or author that wants to enter, Non-Fort Family Authors are more than welcome.
5. Have Fun Writing!
6. All submissions should be sent to 2019 Christmas Short Story Event.
7. If you need suggestions just email ACFan

As always this event is open to all readers and authors. 

Happy Writing,

Dear Readers and Authors,

This is just a friendly reminder that the Christmas Short Stoy Event Submissions are due by Midnight December 22nd PST.  So get the keyboards working and write your Christmas Short Story Masterpiece. ACFan is trying to find time to write bout what he calls a Grand Slam Pizza?

In case you forgot this year's themes are: All I Want For Christmas, What Christmas Means to Me, and My Favourite Christmas at Denny's®.  And yes you can combine the themes into a single story, just make it longer than 500 words give or take a gazillion.

Have fun writing, and don't forget this event is open to everyone, so spread the word!

Here is the email address to submit your stories to elfmail@events.csuproductions.com with the subject, your story title with your initials appended.

Happy writing,