A Christmas Tale

As in the past two years, I've made my Christmas novella, in Kindle format, available at no charge to those interested in new Christmas literature.

Plague has struck a little town, and seventeen are dead. Fifteen years go by. Aaron Westwode, sexton of the Old Grace Church, is tormented by guilt, its origin unknown. A gentle man, he spends his time in mindless work, through which he seeks asylum from his thoughts. But Christmas Eve has come, and thought has driven him to black despair. Upon the brink of suicide, an apparition leads him to the church, where Aaron meets the ghost of Margaret, a woman murdered fifteen years before. A victim of the plague, her love for Aaron draws her back to Earth. She wafts him to the other world, where visions of his past precede a trip to Hell, and confrontation with a stark reality.

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Here’s mine
On This “Little Christmas”
January 6th from my The First Book Of Moses poetry page

L.J.Keslin
On This “Little Christmas”
January 6th

Once Upon a Time and not too long ago
The Twelfth Night Of Christmas
was celebrated with a ball
From the Day of Babes Birth
and the 11 thereafter
kith and kin were paid a visit
and friends from far and near
once were paid a call
So on this day I pray in the spirit that this date recalls
Let the gift of homage of kings gain
in the spirit of the days this season yet remain
ere it wane
Be thine Blessings Great
and misfortunes thee none befall

This is an abbreviated version that and how this season was observed by Catholics prior to the Vat 2 changes plus other changes is offered here
http://www.theusmat.com/natdesk.htm

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