by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 4, 2017 | Christmas, December, manger, mothers, short story
Deena slipped off her shoes and leaned against the side of her cahier’s cubby hole. Only fifteen minutes left on her shift. The endless cacophony of beeps from the store’s computerized sales’ machines was winding down. The shoppers who remained now were the usual...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 2, 2017 | boots, Christmas, December, short story, trees
It was going to be a glorious Christmas vacation. Mara could feel it deep inside. Everything from the planning stage on had gone perfectly. And when she had stepped out of the SUV and glimpsed the clapboard cottage framed by fir trees draped with glistening snow,...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Dec 1, 2017 | Christmas, December, Jewish, Messiah, orchestra, short story, violin
It was cold when Madeleine Rosenberg stepped out of the door of the Tallman Center for the Performing Arts. The wind grabbed the door and banged it shut behind her. She clutched her instrument case and half stepped, half skated forward on the icy sidewalk.It had been...
by Valorie Quesenberry | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
a month of stories for Christmas. beginning December 1
by Valorie Quesenberry | Nov 28, 2017 | celebration, Christmas, December, idolatry, pagan
We wish you a pagan Christmas. What?That’s an oxymoron, right?Christmas, by its very definition, originates from the person of Christ, the name says it plainly. And doesn’t that rule out paganism?The answer is more complicated that it might first appear. A...
