Somebody turned me on to The Hidden Almanac, a whimsical podcast written, produced, and voiced by Ursula Vernon and Kevin Sonney. Three times a week—on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—it brings the listener some four or five minutes of delightfully made-up facts about gardening, history, and hagiography.
I wrote the seeds of the following fictionette after I'd heard the title of the podcast but before I'd listened to an episode. A hidden almanac, I reasoned, might chronicle the shadows of days, as a regular almanac chronicles the days themselves. And why shouldn't a day have a shadow? You have a shadow; is Tuesday any less substantial and worthwhile?
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In the Shadow of Next Tuesday
ContoWhen you've been living in the shadow of two years ago yesterday, falling into future days' shadows is easier to do.
