Christmas Without Snow

Lit Up: December’s Prompt

Phillip T Stephens
Lit Up
Published in
5 min readDec 31, 2018

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Christmas. Fifteen minutes past one a.m.

Picture this:

We’re five blocks from New York’s financial district on a frigid cloudless night. Ice sheathes abandoned sidewalks. No pedestrians tonight. Travelers prefer to coast on ice-crusted asphalts in warm cars than freeze in open air.

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