Tyler C. Gore lives in Brooklyn. He is an editor for Literal Latte, the venerable NYC-based literary journal, and his essays, reviews, stories and poems have appeared in a number of journals including Statorec, Rosebud, The American in Italia, Opium, and The Washington Independent Review of Books. “December 26” is adapted and excerpted from “Appendix,” an essay which appears in his debut collection of work, My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments (Sagging Meniscus, 2022).