The Christmas Angel: A Short Story

By S.Tilghman Hawthorne

Julie suffered a terrible loss last year and now it's Christmas again! How can she pretend to be joyful? Her sister, Tina, wants to help but can't find a way to break into Julie's sadness. 
A voice from the past reaches out with the help of an angel. Will it reach into Julie's heart or fall on deaf ears?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dixie Belle Press
• Release date: Nov 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386724599

S.Tilghman Hawthorne

S. Tilghman Hawthorne is the author of numerous short stories several of which have been published in various anthologies. She has also penned 2 novelettes, one entitled Bitter Prophecy, the other When Shadows Dance. Born and raised on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, she can’t remember a time when she didn't want to write. When her mother read to her, she knew she wanted to create stories like that. Writingdotcom awarded her First Prize in their Fireside Drama Contest for a short story entitled “Grand Opening” as well as a Red Ribbon for “Fantastic Integration of Setting and Plot” for her novelette “Little Bear” which later became Feather of the Blue Heron. She’s had two non-fiction articles published in The Riverside Nurse and also won a poetry contest at 1-800-FLOWERS. She even won an “I’ve Been Published” t-shirt for her poem on the demise of the Taco Bell Chihuahua!! (He was really a “she”). And she won a short story contest at Writer's Carnival for her short short story, Johnny and the Dragon. In October of 2014, the story of her daughter (who had Treacher-Collins Syndrome} “Finding Grace” was published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Touched by an Angel. She worked as a Medical Secretary for 26 years in a Virginia Trauma Center, has been married for eighteen years and has two grown daughters and four beautiful grandchildren. Susan always loved to read and write but only recently began to pursue publication! If you'd like to follow up with her: On Twitter she is @S_T_Hawthorne and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SusanHawthornesImaginationPage/