NaNoWriMo 2014

Marie and Faustus may only be fourteen but they've known each other for eighty-five years. She's a 1929 copy of a famous Degas statue of a ballerina, infuriating the other Degas ballerinas who are jealous of the attention she gets from museum visitors. Her best friend, Faustus is an often overlooked Roman statue, who waits excitedly for the next Day of Life. Those are the two days a year when all the work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art come alive. People dance and chat, closing the gap between millennia and paintings become portals and playgrounds to explore. On one Day of Life, however, a chase between Faustus and Marie and the ballerinas leads to them falling out an emergency exit. The alarm sends the Day of Life spiraling into chaos. Marie and Faustus fall asleep in the park, but when they wake up they discover they are no longer works of art. They are human.