Jim had high hopes of spending the holiday with his boyfriend; instead, he finds himself single on Christmas morning with a homeless man, Henry, sleeping under his table. This was a cute short story of two men meeting and, somehow, forming a relationship with one another, even though it feels more than slightly improbable. Oh well, it's the holidays; I can suspend my disbelief for a moment or two, right?

The thing that kept this at three stars for me is that it just felt too darned short. I needed more - we never really get to see how their relationship did develop. Plus I never really felt like I got to "know" Henry - Jim, I felt, was much more fleshed out than Henry, and Henry really has the more interesting backstory, at least to me. It might have worked more for me if this had been a longer story. ( )