Tangerine

Amazing, awesome, fantastic, magnificent. Have I used enough superlatives yet?

Great lead:

The house looked strange. It was completely empty now, and the door was flung wide open, like something wild had just escaped from it.

Details in lists:

I thought about my phone call to Mom. In Lake Windsor Downs, the people were inside, welcoming the freeze with hot cocoa and fake logs and Christmas CDs. In Tangerine, the people were heading out to fight it with shovels and axes and burning tires.