Home for Christmas

Prose by Lauren Scharhag

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After the first frost, all the shelters 
brace themselves. Volunteers start
planning warming stations in gymnasiums 
and church basements. They're stacking in
donated gloves and socks, space heaters and
Sterno cans. They set signs out on sidewalks,
warning of the deadly cold. Good Samaritans