Ringing In the New Year

This story was a Creative Writing assignment in which I had to write a short story about a winter holiday. I chose New Year's, and the story is loosely based around the Roman god Janus. Janus was said to have two faces: one looking forward into the new year, one looking backward into the old one. His name is the root of the month January. Janus served as inspiration, but just enough to get me started. Enjoy :-)