Iced by Jon Keys (A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Advent Calendar "Bah Humbug.") Cat's Review & #giveaway @Dreamspinners

Keith Walker, a mall bookstore employee, is struggling to get through another miserable holiday season while trying to preserve a crumbling long-term relationship. One of his few comforts is his morning coffee made by a good-looking, younger barista. Austin Novak felt an attraction when Keith started frequenting the coffee shop, but he doesn’t think the older man has any interest in him or his graphic novel collection.

A Christmas week snowstorm buries the city and locks Keith’s car into its parking spot. Keith decides to show Austin his gratitude for helping free the car from the ice with a dinner invitation. The meal becomes complicated when Austin meets Keith’s boyfriend, Shawn, and things go downhill from there when Shawn announces he’s heading to Cancún with his coworkers. Keith is caught between keeping his boyfriend happy and keeping his job. But Keith might not need a plane ticket to find the happiness that’s been missing from his life.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Advent Calendar "Bah Humbug."

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Iced 

Bah Humbug

Advent Calendar 

Jon Keys 

Dreamspinner press2016

Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 3 Purr heat index...

Kieth works in a bookstore. One night when getting off of work he found his car with a flat and frozen on the road. Austin, one of his customers and a Barista in the neighborhood helps him get his car out. To repay him for his kindness he invites him over for dinner. Shawn, his boyfriend, has his friend over for dinner. Austin doesn't like Shawn and the way he treats Kevin but keeps his mouth shut.  Then one night Keith dials Austin by mistake, and it changes their lives.

Iced is a very well written short story. You get the full story in a short amount of time. I loved both Kieth and Austin.  There is tension, drama and romance. If you like bookstore workers, baristas, and an allover sweet romance  this is for you.

Writer of LGBT fiction. Lover of all foods sugar coated. Jon Keys’ earliest memories revolve around books; with the first ones he can recall reading himself being “The Warlord of Mars” and anything with Tarzan. (The local library wasn’t particularly up to date.) But as puberty set in he started sneaking his mother’s romance magazines and added the world of romance and erotica to his mix of science fiction, fantasy, and comic books. A voracious reader for almost half a century, Jon has only recently begun creating his own flights of fiction for the entertainment of others. Born in the Southwest and now living in the Midwest, Jon has worked as a ranch hand, teacher, computer tech, roughneck, designer, retail clerk, welder, artist, and, yes, pool boy; with interests ranging from kayaking and hunting to painting and cooking, he draws from a wide range of life experiences to create written works that draw the reader in and wrap them in a good story.

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