The Christmas Lights

By Catholic Teen Books

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.

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Catholic Teen Books
• Release date: Nov 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798985348507

Catholic Teen Books

Our fiction reflects our faith with Catholic themes, characters, and perspectives. The characters in our stories struggle with challenges that we all face. Some stories follow the lives of saints, of those who dared to live counter-culturally and give themselves entirely to God. Other stories bring to light the beauty and power of the unique aspects of the Catholic faith. The Catholic element is more subtle in some works, but the worldview and themes bring the message of truth. We hope that our fiction will challenge and inspire, that it will awaken within our readers some of the mystery, joy, and beauty of the Faith. We hope to stir within our readers a desire for something beyond themselves. Because God calls everyone to the fullness of faith and happiness, we invite readers of any faith or no faith at all to read our fiction.

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The Christmas Lights

The Christmas Lights

A Catholic Teen Books Short Story

Leslea Wahl Andrea Jo Rodgers Stephanie Engelman Carolyn Astfalk Antony Barone Kolenc Corinna Turner A.J. Cattapan

Copyright © 2020 Catholic Teen Books

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Contents

Introduction

1. The Christmas Lights

Leslea Wahl

Andrea Jo Rodgers

Stephanie Engelman

Carolyn Astfalk

Antony Barone Kolenc

Corinna Turner

A.J. Cattapan

About the Authors

Also By

Introduction

Catholic Teen Books is a collaborative website of authors who all write faith-based fiction for middle school and high school teens. In December of 2020, a friend approached us about writing a collaborative story for Christmas that would be read on his podcast, Jedlie’s Reading with Your Kids Podcast, on Christmas Eve.

Several members of our group jumped at the chance to join in this unique experience. Jed gave us a prompt, and one by one each of us wrote a section as the story was passed from author to author. Only the final author knew the entire story until we read it for the podcast.

We enjoyed the project and wanted to share this fun, short story with others. Proceeds from this e-book will be donated to Cross Catholic Outreach.

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