Issue of December 31, 2007
5 articles in this issue.
You wake up in the dark, wondering if the dog or the cat or the alarm is going to be the first to force you to get up. Everything is silent, and you don't move, not wanting to stir up the household by blundering about the room in the dark to look for a clock. And in the misty musings that tangle thoughts in the night, you remember that the date is going to be December 31st, the last day of the year. New Year's Eve. A thrill races through you: by this time tomorrow, dawn will be about to break on an entirely new year.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Or wait, is that actually supposed to read "A thing of beauty is a nervous breakdown in the making"?
After facing tragedy, Alanna pursued a kind of romance with the ever-present Randolph, less for love than for comfort, and Randolph was willing to promise her comfort, all right ... as long as it kept to his plan ...
Well, he caught the little man fair and square, and he got his boat back, and carried a pot of gold to make him rich ...