A Pint of Beer, a Bag of Chips, and Thou

By JL Merrow

What’s the best gift a young, single man could receive for Christmas? Mohawked punk Liam wouldn’t have picked the hideous collection of homemade knitwear he’s presented with by his well-meaning mum and aunties. He’d much rather have the gorgeous older man he sees every day while busking at King’s Cross station. Liam’s been doing his best to seduce the guy with his saxophone playing -- the trouble is, with the holidays coming up, he’s beginning to despair of his message getting through.

But with a little Christmas magic in the air, maybe those garish garments will be just the thing for attracting the attention of a silver fox ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Dec 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781611528992

JL Merrow

JL MERROW is that rare beast, an English person who refuses to drink tea. She read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, where she learned many things, chief amongst which was that she never wanted to see the inside of a lab ever again. Her one regret is that she never mastered the ability of punting one-handed whilst holding a glass of champagne.She writes across genres, with a preference for contemporary gay romance and mysteries, and is frequently accused of humour. Her novel Slam! won the 2013 Rainbow Award for Best LGBT Romantic Comedy, and her novella Muscling Through and novel Relief Valve were both EPIC Awards finalists.JL Merrow is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, International Thriller Writers, Verulam Writers and the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet organising team.Find JL Merrow online at: www.jlmerrow.com, on Twitter as @jlmerrow, and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jl.merrow

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A Pint of Beer, a Bag of Chips, and Thou

By JL Merrow

Published by JMS Books LLC at Smashwords

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Copyright 2015 JL Merrow

ISBN 9781611528992

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If you enjoy this story and would like to read more about Liam and Neil, please visit jlmerrow.com/free-reads/ive-got-my-love-to-keep-me-warm/ for a short coda set a year later.

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A Pint of Beer, a Bag of Chips, and Thou

By JL Merrow

I walked into the living room three days before Christmas to find the coven was in full swing.

In case you’re thinking that sounds a bit weird, I should maybe mention I was raised by witches. Three of them, which anyone who’s read their Macbeth (or their Pratchett, for that matter) will know is the only sensible, or even possible, number of witches. I grew up with my Mum, my Aunty Des and Aunty Mags, all of us living together in the little house in Camden that used to belong to my Granny, God rest her. I’m Liam, by the way. Pleasure to make your acquaintance. I’m the one solitary male in the household, unless you count the cats. And to be honest, they’re not as male as they used to be, poor things.

There is, in fact, a fourth sister, my Aunty Gerry. Rejected by the coven on the cruel grounds of numerical superfluity, she became an Anglican priest to spite them. Well, that’s how she tells it, anyway, although I can’t say I’ve

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[Crabbypatty · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved it! Take one 20ish tube busker with a mohawk and love of leather and studded gear, add some horrendous hand knit woolens, toss in a gorgeous 40ish silver fox named Neil (“Neil,” he said. Then he grinned. “That’s my name, not an order.”) and combine for a one-of-a-kind Christmas Eve first date.