The advertisement was very convincing. 'Tired of making New Year's resolutions that you never keep?' it said, and my answer was a resounding 'Yes.' So the next chance I got I checked out their website. It seemed simple, maybe that should have cued me in. Well in short, they used the new discoveries that had been made recently in mapping the human brain to implant your resolution right into your subconscious mind. Forget the days of reinforcing positive thoughts and substituting a good habit for the bad one you wanted to get rid of. This process took only an hour and from the moment they finished with you, you were going to be unable to not respect your resolution.

Bartholomew roared into the house and loudly proclaimed, "Arianna, my love, come and see what I did." He tugged at his wife's right arm and smiled widely like a child opening the first Christmas gift of the year.

Arianna rolled her eyes and sighed. "What now? Have you finally moved the snow blower to the front of the garage?"

"No," he said briefly deflated. "Better than that."

She stumbled and caught her footing as he yanked her toward the porch and then out the door into the frozen night air. They stood at the edge of the driveway; Bartholomew with his hands proudly on his waist and chest out Arianna staring blankly at him. "Well?"

Bartholomew plugged together the two ends of the extension cord. The exterior of the house exploded in a capacious array of lights bordering the roof, the living room picture window, the doorways, and even on the landscaped bushes at the foot of the building.

"Ta-Da!" He waited for it to sink in. Arianna stood in solemn amazement while Bartholomew nodded in smug appreciation. "Yes, yes. I know it's beautiful," he said as he waved for the imaginary silent applause.

Our topic for November thru December 2009 is "New Years Resolution".

Our new contest is a story about a New Years Resolution.
Something about a New Years Resolution in a science fiction, fantasy or horror kind of way.

Something about a New Years Resolution has to be involved. What is up to you!

Perhaps it was last years resolution. How did that work out?
It could be the events leading up to a new one. Or the failure of the last one.


As always, have fun!

1000 words of less.
Contest ends on December 15th 2009