I wasn't going to do this, but...

[desperance]

On the twelfth day of Christmas, desperance sent to me...

Twelve pre-raphaelites drumming

Eleven robots reading

Ten cats a-walking

Nine androids publishing

Eight magpies eating

Seven peppers a-writing

Six dragons a-cooking

Five ro-o-o-obert graves

Four tom waits

Three john barnes

Two short stories

...and a horror in an astronomy.

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Comments

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

A Horror in an Astronomy is, I hope, going to be a future short story title...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Well, this story I'm fighting with at the moment would qualify, being a ghost story - which is at least a near neighbour to horror - and focused on an orrery, which is definitely astronomy. But I'm not going to call it that, sorry; I prefer "The House of Mechanical Pain". Weird, but there you go.