Buford is Santa's right-hand elf, and he knows Christmas success hinges on one thing: his yearly pre-sleigh-launch good deed. This year, though, he's not having any luck finding a deed that needs doing. Santa's son Michael works at the mall while he studies business management and the cute cashier he manages. The cute cashier doesn't seem to even notice Michael, making Christmas less bright than it could be. Buford decides matchmaking will be his good deed. Can he get Michael and the cute cashier together and save Christmas? — Written as part of the Choose Your Own M/M Story challenge hosted by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. The story prompts for the author were:
- Setting: a shopping mall on Christmas eve and don’t forget the stressed-out staff and overly vigilant security! AND waiting in the queue at the best Christmas tree lot in the area
- Background to one of the main protags ~ one has an unusual form of Christmas carol Tourette's
- Another character: an obsessively superstitious Christmas elf
- A conflict: animated mistletoe that seems to delight in appearing above the strangest pairings in order to create the most fuss
- An object/phrase/theme/whatever to be mentioned in the story somewhere: a tinsel g-string
Author
Born and raised in the Southern US, Kerry Freeman was the quintessential tomboy who'd rather play war with the neighborhood boys than get near a doll. She discovered a love of words early, reading everything in sight. Kerry writes contemporary gay romance/Boys' Love novels, and her dream is to have her books translated for the Asian market. Many of her stories, including "One Last Road Trip" in the Rainbow Award-winning Playing Ball , are about baseball players. As Jamie in What We Deserve would say, you have to love the guys in those tight baseball pants. Loves: Oxford Comma, baseball, reading non-fiction Hates: Bananas, underwire bras, stories without a happy ending Kerry lives in the Southern US with her husband and spoiled rotten furbabies.
