“A Perfect Christmas” Short Story Ebook Now Available

My contribution to the Catholic Teen Books 2019 Christmas anthology Gifts: Visible & Invisible is now available separately as a 99-cent ebook on Kindle and other ebook platforms.

No tree, no cookies, no gifts. Not a single flake of snow. With sick siblings, Dad stranded, and Mom overwhelmed, will Christmas come at all to Marigold’s topsy-turvy home?

“A Perfect Christmas,” while written from the perspective a fifteen-year-old girl, addresses that desire so many of us have to get everything done just right for Christmas–all the shopping, all the decorating, and, of course, all the cookies! Sometimes reality doesn’t match up to our aspirations or even our well-laid plans.

Get a copy now for yourself or send it to a friend for less than a dollar!

“Nova” Excerpt Featured by Tuscany Press

An excerpt from my short story submission to Tuscany Press is featured on its blog. “Nova,” written last winter, was inspired by the death of my former pastor. (July 6, 2015)

“He closed his eyes, hoping to relax in the arms of his Father, but no amount of external peace could quiet his soul. It irritated, like a pebble in his shoe. With every step forward it rankled and distracted until he gave up and succumbed to sleep.”

[Update: Tuscany Press is no longer in operation.]