One of my favorite winter traditions. 🎄❄️ Buy Anne a coffee and you might receive your own Advent calendar story. I’ve cherished mine over the years. Hurry, these 24 calendar windows sell out quickly. #stories #holidays

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All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.

Once upon a time, there was a Little Girl who wore a velvet hood as red as rowan-berries. Her best friend was a Wolf who made her laugh & brought her books about the world & little chocolate cakes & cherries in the season & walked with her in the forest where the bad men were.

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❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...) & write Christmas in the message & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

When he left, he turned back as he pulled the gate shut, and for a brief moment, an uneven scatter of rush-lights seem to flicker in the darkness, and then they were gone, as though they had never been.

As he moved slowly between the graves, lantern steady in the fog, he distributed such comfort and kindness and mercy, that not one soul felt forgotten or lost or small, however lonely or inconsequential they had felt in life, however brief their time.

Old Fox, however, well-versed in ancient and high things, understood all.

Some had messages for the living; others, older, fainter in form, tried to tell of the place of the fixed stars where they dwelt, but there were no words to carry their meaning.

Old Fox went to each in turn, greeting them and listening to stories he had heard over countless years and those fresh and green in the telling. Many were dear friends.

A grand and very decayed tomb was flanked by a beautiful lady holding hands with a knight in half-armour, and a tall grey-eyed wolf sat sternly next to an ivy-wreathed angel, wings weathered by a hundred frosts.

In one corner, shaded by a friendly old oak, a family of badgers, as close-knit in death as in life. Around one tall cross, soldiers stood, laughing and sharing cigarettes.

There were sailors and fishermen, seamstresses and sail-makers, judges and fruit pickers, architects and school teachers, farmers and stone masons, little cubs and bright-eyed, giggling children and rows of the ancient with their sticks of thorn.

They stood patiently by their graves, in crinolines and houppelandes, delicate white muslins and fiery red satins.

Leaves cloaked the paths between the yews and the tombs and the lichen-mottled stones and by the wall which edged the village green, white and violet Michaelmas daisies drooping in the mist. Then, as though called by a silent bell, one by one they came.

An ethereal and beautiful thread for All Souls Day, by the incomparable Anne Louise Avery.

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All Souls' Day, and in the blue dusk light, carrying a lantern, Old Fox walked down to the churchyard. A barn owl called down from the tower, and was answered somewhere in the trees.

#OldFoxAdventCalendar - if you want a special tale (theme or cast of characters) on this year's calendar, send Anne a hot chocolate/Ko-fi w/ "Christmas" and the theme in the notes. Soon. There are only 24 windows in an advent calendar.

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Advent is a delightful season in Old Fox's world, full of warmth and friends and holiday traditions - and cake, of course. A subscription to Anne's Patreon would make a wonderful gift to yourself at a time when we could all use more love and beauty in our lives.

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...) & write Christmas in the message & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi & write Christmas in the message, a theme or a dedication, & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi & write Christmas in the message, a theme or a dedication, & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️

☕️ If you like my stories, then why not support my daily writing and buy me a nice hot chocolate over on Kofi. It's very, very helpful at the moment, as I can't work as much as I would like because of my health. ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...

Anne Louise Avery tells beautiful microstories set in her own world of wild open spaces, small communities, talking animals and mutual respect between all living things.

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Always seasonal tales on Anne's Patreon - sometimes with wonderful recipes as well. Tales (w/ or w/o recipes) are available on every tier. Wolf's welcoming card is very sweet. Today is a good day to subscribe.

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

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Two new Old Fox ghost stories up on my patreon: "The Émigrée on the Lawn" and "The Great Gale of 1824". Join for these and thousands of other tales. And Wolf will even send you a card when you sign up! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Old Fox's series of ghost stories continues on my patreon today with "The Phantom Phaeton"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseavery

Spooky season is a great time to join @annelouiseavery.bsky.social 's Patreon. Creepy tales, delicious recipes, maybe even a wandering ghost at the kitchen door...👻🎃

A fabulously spooky time to join @annelouiseavery.bsky.social's patreon!!!! 🦉👻🏮🍂🎃

If Ghost stories across the ages are your thing, RN is a great time to subscribe to Anne's Patreon. (& Wolf, who loves ghost stories - the gorier the better - & Old Fox, who knows & tells lots of them will send you a very sweet welcome card when you join.)

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If a story touches your heart, send Anne a hot chocolate (Ko-fi) in appreciation. If they all do, join her Patreon. All tiers have access to all the tales (& recipes). Wolf & Old Fox will send you a very sweet welcome card when you do. Today is a good day to subscribe.

Just sharing Anne's scary stories. 💚🤍💚 She's a lovely writer and regularly posts tiny stories on here based on art work. She's such a kind, comforting presence to follow on bluesky.

Old Fox's series of ghost stories begins on my patreon today with "The Scarlet Crown"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

☕️ If you like my stories, then why not support my daily writing and buy me a nice hot chocolate over on Kofi. It's very, very helpful at the moment, as I can't work as much as I would like because of my health. ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...

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