An Open Window
By Rick R. Reed
3.5/5
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Henry’s homeless and only wants a warm place to sleep on the coldest night of the year. A forgotten open window in a darkened house entices him inside with the promise of warmth and comfort. He knows it’s wrong, but he promises himself he’ll be out before the owner wakes on Christmas morning.
Except he oversleeps and the homeowner, Jim, discovers a bearded stranger sawing logs under his dining room table. When the shock and the drama that ensues dies down, Henry and Jim discover they might have found, quite unexpectedly, the Christmas miracle they’d both been longing for -- love and home.
Rick R. Reed
Rick R. Reed is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty works of published fiction. He is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Entertainment Weekly has described his work as "heartrending and sensitive." Lambda Literary has called him: "A writer that doesn't disappoint…" Find him at www.rickrreedreality.blogspot.com. Rick lives in Palm Springs, CA, with his husband, Bruce, and their two rescue dogs, Kodi and Joaquin.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jim had high hopes of spending the holiday with his boyfriend; instead, he finds himself single on Christmas morning with a homeless man, Henry, sleeping under his table. This was a cute short story of two men meeting and, somehow, forming a relationship with one another, even though it feels more than slightly improbable. Oh well, it's the holidays; I can suspend my disbelief for a moment or two, right?The thing that kept this at three stars for me is that it just felt too darned short. I needed more - we never really get to see how their relationship did develop. Plus I never really felt like I got to "know" Henry - Jim, I felt, was much more fleshed out than Henry, and Henry really has the more interesting backstory, at least to me. It might have worked more for me if this had been a longer story.
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An Open Window - Rick R. Reed
An Open Window
By Rick R. Reed
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An Open Window
By Rick R. Reed
Embers flickered, orange and yellow, in the hearth. Jim and Henry sat in front of the fire, wrapped in two things—a yellow-and-white afghan, worn soft, and each other’s arms.
The heat of the dying flames still gave off a little warmth, and when Jim looked over at his husband, his best friend, his soul mate, his outrageous lover, he saw him again as a very young man. A fire’s glow can do that, erasing lines, warming the complexion, and adding a subtle