Stories of human experiences. "Kathleen Katon Tonnesen's new collection of short stories, A Hummingbird in December, is bookended by a matching pair of poems from which this volume draws its name. That is perfectly fitting, because the six short stories within her book are woven together beautifully with the silver and gold threads of poetic writing throughout. In the story "Comparison," Tonnesen finds the poetry in night time: "the mountainous horizon...