Joy in the Morning

“The light shines in the darkness...”

As a child growing up on her grandparents’ ranch, Brinlee never imagined running it by herself, much less converting it into a refuge for innocent children fleeing a brutal war. And she never would have believed how much one toddler’s sunny little presence could brighten her lonely road. With all the suffering and pain surrounding them, will Joy’s influence reach farther than she knows?  A cozy Christian contemporary dystopian short story  Also published in the Joy KDWC collection