When a young policeman finds himself stuck walking an underground beat the night before Christmas, his loneliness and isolation is almost more than he can tolerate, until he happens upon someone who is faring far worse—someone suffering through a trial for which his police training has not prepared him.

Based on actual events, this first-person narrative illustrates how the most modest and unpretentious circumstances often generate human interaction that can be life-altering for those involved.

A short work of fiction from our Nibs literary line.