’Twas an Author’s Day After Christmas

by M. L. Buchman
(also in audio read by the author on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Iew5uh8lbPE)



’Twas the day after Christmas, when all through
the land,

Only authors were stirring, and none feeling so
grand.

The year’s stories were few, lined up on the
shelf,

(and those sure weren’t put there by some magic old
elf).

The readers still lay nestled all snug in their
bed;

While their iPhones