Days of week on Hebrew calendar the "four gates". Since three arrangements cannot occur within the fixed calendar, most holidays can each occur on one of four possible days. All the holy days and festivals fall in the months of Nisan through Tishrei, months one to seven. These months always have the same number of days, alternating 30 and 29. The next two months are Cheshvan and Kislev, months eight and nine. Both or either of these months can have either 29 or 30 days, allowing for adjustments to be made and the schedule in the coming year to be manipulated. (On a regular year, Cheshvan
Six Months, Three Days for the 2011 Nebula Award and the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award; it won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Rachel Swirsky described the story as a "philosophical contrast" between determinism and free will. Jim C. Hines said Anders' resolution to the fixed vs. multiple futures conflict was "simultaneously tragic and scary and hopeful", but added that it "felt "right" for the story". In 2013, "Deadline Hollywood" announced that a television adaptation was being prepared for NBC, with script written by Eric Garcia. Six Months, Three Days "Six Months, Three Days" is a science fiction novelette by Charlie Jane Anders.