Few romantic comedies warm our hearts as much as While You Were Sleeping, am I right? …Well, I’m pretending you said … More
Author: writerbrarian
It’s not Christmas till Margaret Schlegel helps Mrs. Wilcox with her Christmas shopping.’
Loads of people have commemorated Christmas in fiction many, many (MANY!) times, so we’re doing a little series here called … More
Darklings try to spread midnight over an entire day (Oct 31) .
The Midnighters series is set in a small Oklahoma town where these few special teens can experience a hidden hour … More
Charlie goes to his first real party (Oct 28, 1991).
“Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way. I have since bought … More
Halloween arrives in Green Town, Illinois. (Oct 24)
“But one strange wild dark long year, Halloween came early. One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.” … More
Treat Yo Self Day (Oct 13).
Tom and Donna (Parks and Rec) have an annual tradition to splurge on themselves and hit the three S’s: spa, … More
Happy Birthday to twins Hallie and Annie! (October 11)
Hallie and Annie met at a prestigious summer camp, and they became immediate rivals even though they looked exactly like … More
Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vale (October 8, 1937)
After an interesting courtship, the gentleman-detective in Dorothy Sayer’s mystery novels marries mystery-writer Harriet Vane in the novel Busman’s Honeymoon. … More
Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel around the world in 80 days. (Oct 2, 1872)
It was an eventful day for the rigidly scheduled Mr. Fogg. I mean, it’s a wonder he was able to get … More
A Monet is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (late Sept)
A group of bungling thieves-for-hire sneak into the museum by hiding in a statue of a horse and later pose … More
Fictional Almanac 