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Twelve Days of Short Stories 2025

Twelve Days of Short Stories 2025

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Phillip Whittlesea-Clark
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Phillip Whittlesea-Clark
Software Architect & Dungeon Master
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Last year I did the Twelve Days of Short Stories, and it was a lot of fun.

This year I am going to do it again. Unfortunately, I have not written anything since then, but “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”.

As a reminder, this is my attempt to embrace the suck; accept I am not good at writing, and just write. The goal is to write a short story every other day for twelve days, starting on the 1st of December and finishing on the 23rd.

As a small change on last year, instead of selecting a point of view for the story, I have selected a random genre.

This year’s prompts are:

DayPrimary WordBackup WordGenre
1hateengineerDystopian
3shortrichDetective
5reigndescentFantasy
7pianoformulaMystery
9theatredeskAdventure
11paintgloveSci-Fi
13abolishpowerAdventure
15mirrorkneelRomance
17cooperatemanageHigh Fantasy
19concentratezoneMilitary Fiction
21bakefightFairy Tale
23documentprofitCrime

Let’s see how I do! I will update the table above with links as I go.

Click here to see all of my writing.

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