title: A Collection of Christmas Stories to Warm the Heart
author: Mr Clyde N Waite
description: Clyde was born in and continues to live in Anaheim CA. He loves to write. He writes short stories and poetry. He writes for his love of the Lord. He is a family man, with 8 children and six grandchildren and his beautiful wife, Liz. He likes to watch movies, spend time with family and lots of laughter. He has produced a short film that is viewable on YouTube titled "The Final Deception". A second film based on one of the stories in this book, "In Defense of Lisa", is in editing and scheduled for release in Fall 2015.
zlib_text: **The Best Christmas Ever**
  
  by James Patrick Kelly
  
  Aunty Em's man was not doing well at all. He had been droopy and gray ever
  since the neighbor Mr.
  
  Kimura had died, shuffling around the house in nothing but socks and bathrobe.
  He had even lost interest in the model train layout that he and the neighbor
  were building in the garage. Sometimes he stayed in bed until eleven in the
  morning and had ancient Twinkies for lunch. He had a sour, vinegary smell. By
  midafternoon he'd be asking her to mix strange ethanol concoctions like Brave
  Little Toasters and Tin Honeymoons. After he had drunk five or six, he would
  stagger around the house mumbling about the big fires he'd fought with Ladder
  Company No. 3 or the wife he had lost in the Boston plague. Sometimes he would
  just cry.
  
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  "Do you want to watch _Annie Hall?_ " Aunty Em asked.
  
  The man perched on the edge of the Tyvola sofa in the living room, elbows
  propped on knees, head sunk into 