Christmas Without Snow
Lit Up: December’s Prompt
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5 min readDec 31, 2018
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.