She Paid a Stranded Biker’s Gas, and Three Days Later Everything Changed

When Mercy House won that emergency stipend, the town heard about it before Alicia got back from the county line.

By supper, people were saying the shelter had “beat the county.”

By evening, they were saying Alicia had “made them answer.”

By morning, those same people had made the story small enough to live with.

They said maybe the county had simply been continue reading …