“A Perfect Christmas”
October 2020
A contemporary Christian Young Adult short story.
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” first appeared in Gifts: Visible & Invisible, a collection of Christmas-themed short stories by eight CatholicTeenBooks.com authors.
“Behind the Wheel”
November 2021
A contemporary Christian Young Adult short story.
An unlicensed driver. His dad’s truck. What could possibly go wrong?
Sean Porter needs a ride to meet a girl. Two things stand in his way: a driver and his younger brother, Paul.
“Behind the Wheel” first appeared in Secrets: Visible & Invisible, a collection of short stories by eight CatholicTeenBooks.com authors, all with a secret or two. It features the Porter brothers, Sean and Paul, who readers meet several years later in the full-length novel Rightfully Ours.
“The Christmas Lights”
Live production: December 2021/E-book: November 2021
“The Christmas Lights” is a collective short story written sequentially in individual pieces by seven Catholic Teen Books authors and originally presented aloud on Reading with Your Kids Podcast.
When a blizzard puts Camilla and her family in jeopardy, she must brave the snowstorm to get help. Lost and alone, all she can do is search for Christmas lights, which is either a direction from her dead grandma or a delusion. Help does come, in completely unexpected ways.