Hole-Hearted

By Sam Burns

Pediatrician Luce Wright’s bad breakup gets worse when his drunk ex drives a car through his house a week before Christmas. His whole family is coming over in just a few days, and he can’t have a hole with a tarp over it in the middle of his dining room.

Fortunately his neighbor’s son is moving back into town, and he owns a construction company. Can Luce and his homemade cookies persuade Darren to mend the hole in the house… and maybe the one in Luce’s heart too?

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2019 Advent Calendar "Homemade for the Holidays."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
• Release date: Dec 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644057704

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Hole-Hearted

By Sam Burns

Pediatrician Luce Wright’s bad breakup gets worse when his drunk ex drives a car through his house a week before Christmas. His whole family is coming over in just a few days, and he can’t have a hole with a tarp over it in the middle of his dining room.

Fortunately his neighbor’s son is moving back into town, and he owns a construction company. Can Luce and his homemade cookies persuade Darren to mend the hole in the house… and maybe the one in Luce’s heart too?

ROXY PRESSED a steaming mug of tea into his hands, but Luce didn’t even look at it. All he could see was the hole.

The hole in his house.

It’s not that bad, she said, but there was hesitation in her voice because it was exactly that bad. I mean, hey, at least you know you were right to dump him.

Luce gave his sister the most unimpressed look he could muster. Since the local garage had just towed his ex-boyfriend’s totaled Audi away after the asshole had plowed through his garage door and into the wall of the house beyond, it was pretty unimpressed.

At least you weren’t parked in the garage at the time? she tried.

That was true. It had happened at nine on a Friday night, and it was sheer luck that he’d been out for dinner with Roxy. His neighbor had called the police, the police had contacted Luce, and there he was, watching his ex sitting in the back of