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=Holiday= Holiday is a short story written by Paul Chan in 2012. The story was originally published as a sandstone tablet and as a eBook, and was published by Chan's website Badlands Unlimited.

Summary
The story is about a little girl who is wandering along a path in a park, when she comes across a bird lying on the ground. After a traumatic event, which involved her being temporarily blinded by the bird, the girl starts a tradition of visiting that path every year. After some time others get curious about her tradition and start to join her by visiting the path, creating a new holiday.

Story
"One day, a girl came across a bird lying on a dirt path in the park. The wings were spread on the ground as if frozen in mid-flight. Was it dead? The girl leaned in for a closer inspection. Suddenly the bird violently flapped its wings against the ground. An instant later, the bird flew into the girls face and knocked her to the ground. The girl was in shock at first. She could not see. But soon she settled into herself. And happy that her condition left her unable to reflect on anything of significance for any amount of time, began to cry. You see, she has always been a thoughtful person. She took great pride in being mindful even in the presence of simple, repetitive, work. She pondered very hard when she looked at things and concentrated with all her might on every task. She never tired from the general state of affairs. Without much fuss, her eyes healed in a week. But afterwards she could no longer muster the energy to return to that state of thoughtfulness. She had trouble using phones and could not-- during the day-- tell the difference between people and things. She returned to that dirt path every week (more or less) after that and sat on a bench close by, waiting for the bird, or maybe any bird. Others heard her story and joined her. They do this now, once a year, in the park." [7]

Background
The stone slab was published by Paul Chan's company Badlands Unlimited.It was created by having two pages engraved into both sides of a stone slab. Having created a stone book is representative of Badlands Unlimited's motto  “we make books in an expanded field” .Chan's method of having Holiday published as a stone tablet rather then on paper is reflective of the old style used when writing the Rosetta Stone, or the Ten Commandments. It was created as a part of the Post-Digital Print movement, where multiple authors created stories in unique ways, for example Stephanie Barber created a book called Night Moves by copying all the comments from Bob Segar's song on YouTube and turning it into a book.

Reception
Chan's has received critic for his website since he is able to publish work in unusual forms, although not many are aware of his story Holiday. Heather Zises from (READ)art said about Holiday "this artwork bridge[s] the gap between old and new, but also sends the message that Badlands is truly publishing outside of the printing press and deep into an expanded field". In an interview with Paul Schmelzer Chan stated that the reason for him creating Badlands was so that he could essentially publish his own work, he also said that Holiday was "adapted from another short story I wrote years ago." .