Working at the Craft Emporium keeps Adam Martinez busy during the holiday season he absolutely hates. Enter elementary schoolteacher David Okoye, who can’t get enough of Christmas or craft supplies. David is cute, wholesome, and Adam can’t deny a little bit of a crush.
Making the holidays special for his students is only part of the reason David makes excuses to go to the Craft Emporium. He also holds a torch for Adam. He takes it as a personal challenge to show Adam how to enjoy the holidays when he asks Adam to teach him to knit. David promises the holidays can be wonderful when shared with the right people, but how can they share them when David is going home to his family and Adam will be left all alone?
A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2019 Advent Calendar "Homemade for the Holidays."
Elinor Gray is a sucker for adventure: after college she moved to London on a whim and spent sixteen months absorbing the history, mastering the warren of streets, and living her Anglophile dream. She considers that time an essential period research for her fiction, though technically she was getting a Master of Arts degree in Geography, and she misses the noise, the crowds, and the smog. As a reader and writer, Elinor has an affinity for queer romance, fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction, and the Wild West, and will always say yes to the Victorian era. Now she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her wife, three cats, one bicycle, and a yarn stash that is always on the verge of being out of control.
Get in touch at elinorgrayauthor.com or at @ElinorGray on Twitter.