By Margaret A. Frey

The Memory Cloth

“The threat had been silent, invisible for years. No warning that day in your kitchen while we talked about kids, middle-age spread, or the grand vacations we dreamed of taking.”

By Linda Simone

Berkley Pond

“In the pure morning light, everything seems to belong, including me. But today, two weeks after we put our house on the market, the sky lightens in barely perceptible degrees, and I am still in the dark.”

By Nadine York

Bethlehem Revisited

“It has the all the elements of the original story, except for a few variations. The woman was pregnant, but she also had a three-year-old in tow. They were in transit, but Joseph was glaringly absent. There were no wise men, but a group of very wise women filled in without missing a beat. I was the innkeeper.”