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Writing Prompt | Submission Guidelines | 12 Days | Fiction | Poetry

12 Days of Christmas

A Ranch Hand Agency Prompt

Hark! It’s the 12 Days of Christmas, Agency style!

We love your erotic desires, dripping with wild abandon and taboo themes. Your dark poetry that bleeds the heart and rips out your soul. The horror masterpieces that give us chills and nightmares alike. Noir tendencies that chase shadows and solve the unsolvable mysteries. Don’t forget the paranormal fantasies that bind magic and monster and make us tingle with power.

But let’s put a Christmassy spin on it.

We want your best takes on the 12 Days of Christmas. Stories to delight and horrify, to shine a light on the magical, and cloud shadows over the dark and depraved. These aren’t the 12 Days of Christmas you grew up with.

What are the rules? Glad you asked.

1. Stories should be between 500–1000 words. Poetry will be accepted for these prompts.
2. No genres are off the table. Give us everything you have. Can be as filthy as you’d like or SFW. We want it all. The only rule is they have to match the theme for one of the 12 days (Handy List Below).
3. Writers can submit a piece for as many of the days as they…