Shannon Brooks Noel

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Noel: Christmas Retold--brings us back to the heart of Christmas through a trio of short stories. In "The Child," Mary, a common peasant girl in captive Nazareth, is visited by an angel. After the encounter she is found to be pregnant out of wedlock. Will her child be accepted as the promised Messiah? Will he be shunned or worse?In "Assigned," angels and demons clash, and high ranking guardians, Shamar and Natsar brace themselves for the most pivotal task they will be given the keeping of the one human who can save all of mankind. In "Mercys Dream," from under a staircase, on a piece of cardboard, a despondent homeless man witnesses a very strange night, that begins when a young couple gets off a bus and is stranded on his abandoned side of town.