A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five minutes flat, to a woman who claims John James Audubon is living in her attic.

Meals-On-Wheels -- Long black veil -- What would they say in Birmingham? -- Progress of deglutition -- Telephone man -- Miss Wigglesworth's bull -- Bus ride -- Return to sender -- Lonesome without you -- The garden -- Nothing with strings -- Green bus -- Almost gone.