Description
A Christmas Parable
Ch1
Maria awoke with a start. That had been one strange night’s sleep. It’s true, she’d been working hard for her GCSEs at St Faith’s Catholic Comprehensive in Bolton, and had been sleeping fitfully for weeks. But this was something else. Those dreams – what were they? At first she thought it had just been like an episode of Supernatural. She’d watched that series so often, lots of her dreams had various ethereal figures in them. But this time she was sure she’d seen, well, maybe an angel: it was so vivid, she felt she could reach across and touch him. He didn’t look like an angel though – he wasn’t wearing a white dress or had wings or anything like that. But there was something about him. Something pure, something terrifying. All very odd.
But what he had said was even odder. Something about having a baby, a special baby from God. That sort of thing happens all the time in the sorts of TV shows she watched, but she’d never dreamed that sort of thing before. She was so shocked she’d found herself saying to this angel that it was all cool, if that’s what was going to happen. It might even get her out of GCSEs. Now, waking up, she felt different, clean in some way. But she was still sure it was just a dream.
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