Special Edition Monday Plot Swap

Friday the 13th style

  

Dawn's Plot Swap

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For reasons I won't bore you with, I was unable to fulfill your plot swap needs on Friday. I apologize for this travesty and hope you will forgive me. 

If I had been doing my job properly on Friday, It would have been a Friday the 13th style plot swap. 

So, let's see what you've got!

Hope none of my followers are :

Paraskevidekatriaphobics — people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th

 

 Otherwise, this year might be rough on you!

 

Why? There are three this year, instead of the usual two. There was one in 2011.

That's not all. For the first time since 1984, those three Friday the 13ths — Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13 — are exactly 13 weeks apart.

Since Friday the 13 superstitions lend themselves to the paranormal, I can see this working for a plot where the 13th opens a portal or some other mystical event. The first date, the characters are sucked into the alternate dimension.  The second, they almost make it out, but are foiled at the last second. Leaving the third for rescue and happily ever after! 

One of the theories on why the date is unlucky would make an interesting plot in itself. 

 

 

  [Researchers] trace the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.
"Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been considered ominous and foreboding.

So, now that Friday the 13th is safely behind us, swap with me. Do you have any unlucky stories for that day? Maybe lucky ones that laugh in the face of superstition?