Silent Night
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Star of Wonder by: B. James Wilson The City of Ekbatana, in the Kingdom of Persia, 7 BC (AUC 747) Each ascent to the high rocks above the ancient inscriptions of Xerxes and Darius had become an ordeal for Larvandad. His joints protested with every hand-hold, every footfall on the weathered stone. The muscles in
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Mary slipped into the small space between the neighbor’s house and the wooden slats of the fence that penned the goats. There was a recess there and a small depression in the ground where she could kneel, unseen, and spy through the narrow gaps in the fence. No one else knew this place, not even
B. James Wilson 