The year has been loud, chaotic, and people are feeling pushed and prodded, divided and flustered. Every day the news demands our attention, our anger, and our energy.Wouldn't you like to get away?Authors Randy Brown, Carol Cassada, Tracy H. Gilmore, Lark Griffing, A.K. Lawrence, and J.C. Wing have taken the classic "Twelve Days of Christmas" and turned tradition on its ear.

Find original stories based on each of the twelve days . but that's where any comparison to the classic Christmas carol comes to an end.There is humor, mystery, romance, horror and adventure awaiting in the following pages. While some of the stories have a holiday theme, some of them have taken a different path altogether. We think we've come up with something unique with Twelve Tales A-Telling, so please sit back and let us entertain you.