Birthnight
by Michelle Sagara
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Short story of 6k words
On the night Christ was born, he received many visitors, and among those, unchronicled, the vast host of legendary creatures who still roamed the world: the dragon, the unicorn, the phoenix, and the Queen of all Faerie, to name only a few.
Called by a strange, unknown constellation, they are drawn to the child whose birth would herald the start of a new age