Thanks to everyone who participated in our Encounter with an Angel reader challenge. We’re delighted to announce the winners as selected by bestselling author. Each writer will receive a signed copy of Anne’s new book Angel Time. Congratulations!

Here, in no particular order, are the winners:

Elora, whose entry Anne thought was “delightfully original:”
Dancing together, we rise into the room. Looking down at motionless me, I am unafraid. “This is not your time but dance with me a moment longer.” Chords of sweet melody fill the air, my spirit intertwines with his until the crescendo. He leaves, and I live …again.

Alex.Allen, whose story Anne selected because of the “very touching description of the grandfather”
In response to my saying ‘tell me’, she turned. In her eyes, this glint flickered, like an aging ballerina, recalling her first dance steps at age six.

“When my grandfather died. He had said, simply: ‘light, so much light’. Then he…”

She turned away.

My work done, I smiled, disappearing.

laureqisaok2, whose story Anne thought “revisited the Angel of Christmas with great sensitivity.”
Mom cradles Baby Jesus, carved decades ago by Greatgrandpa in Holland. Tears drop on His broken body, sacrificed on the wrong holiday.

Nearby, Dad beerily snores into his Santa hat, passed out again.
Xmas morning, squabbling over presents, nobody notices Angel Gabriel lopsidedly watching Mary kneel before an empty manger.

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• Posted on 3 February, 2010
  by MaggieH
• Category
  Reader Challenges