Saints & Sagas

LegendFiction challenged Catholic storytellers to create short stories that keep you awake past bedtime. Stories where you close the book, set your teeth, and think: I want courage like that. We asked for heroes with haloes. And seven stories delivered. For too long, the lives of saints felt like stained glass-beautiful, distant, impossible. We remembered them as pretty pictures on church walls, separated from us by centuries and virtue.

But it's more true that each of them once stood where you stand now, with no idea what came next. Their next choice could have cost them everything. And somehow, they found the courage to act.

Authors include:

• 1st Place: Corrina Turner: The Undefeated King: St. Edmund, the Original Patron Saint of the English

• 2nd Place: Gianna Weissensel: Pier Giorgio Frassati: Terror of Fascists

• 3rd Place: C. S. Waters: The Shield of Saint Michael (St Patrick)

Also includes:

• Maria Pasquale: The Door of the Dead (St Clare of Assisi)

• Adrianna Odegaard: Daughter of Light (St Philomena)

• Daniel Staudt: Maria Aegyptica (St Mary of Egypt)

• Owen J. Dee: Ulrich & the Siege of Augsburg