Wendy Jo Cerna

Lenny Ostrom packed the Jeep anyway: gifts for three granddaughters, Russian teacakes, white-chocolate-dipped pretzels, for a drive to his daughter's house the blizzard was never going to allow. So the seventy-five-year-old retired pastor spends Christmas Eve alone on the back row of a church in...

A top-secret scroll has been leaked and hell is in a panic. Minions are commissioned to keep the scroll’s contents from being exposed to humanity. But before they can stop it, the all-important document is downloaded into the soul of one Dr. Elspeth Olson-Sinclair—a best-selling author.

Carlyle is a heavenly being who works as an agreement facilitator in the time outside of time. Here human beings are allowed to read the scrolls of their lives prior to their births. His first clients Julia and Nellie Jolicoeur – twins destined to be born on the cusp of the millennium in New...

The muggy silence that hung outside my bedroom window that August night in 1982 was pierced by the ringing telephone. A baby call. My mother was a baby-catcher (a midwife) and whenever the call came, she went. Too young to stay at home by myself, I went with her. I planned to draw or sleep as my...

"Happy birthday dear Mom, Grammy, Tora, Auntie, Happy birthday to you!” The people that fill my screen–each in their own little box–sing and smile once more before disappearing one by one. Blowing them kisses, I say, “Thank you all. I love you!” As I reflect on this 65th birthday...