The Naming of Weather

By K.L. Noone

A Character Bleed Story

Colby Kent and Jason Mirelli are getting married. Colby’s trying to balance wedding planning, writing the next award-winning screenplay, and a new life in his new home with Jason. He’s happier than he ever thought he’d be. But he’s got a question or two. He could use Jason’s help, but he doesn’t want Jason to worry.

Jason likes making Colby happy. He’s happy too: right where he belongs, at Colby’s side, together on movie sets and at home. But he can’t help worrying just a little. Colby still forgets to eat, and to put on sunblock when swimming, and now Colby has a question. About their wedding. About their names.

Fortunately, it’s a question they agree on ... and Colby knows exactly how to reassure his fiancé.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685502034

K.L. Noone

K.L. Noone loves fantasy, romance, cats, far too sweet coffee, and happy endings! She is also the author of Port in a Storm and its upcoming sequel, available from Less Than Three Press, and numerous short romances with Ellora’s Cave and Circlet Press; her fantasy fiction has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress anthologies. With her Professor Hat on, she teaches college students about Shakespeare and superhero comics, and has published academic articles and essays on Neil Gaiman’s adaptations of Beowulf, Welsh mythology in modern fantasy, and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

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The Naming of Weather

By K.L. Noone

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2022 K.L. Noone

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Published in the United States of America.

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For everyone who read bits, fell in love with Jason and Colby, and wanted more.

Note: this story takes place after Renovations and before Fantastic.

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The Naming of Weather

By K.L. Noone

Colby Kent, stretched out between sunshine and shade across cushions beside the backyard swimming pool, heard the purr of the classic Mustang as his future husband came home. He recognized the rumble—Jason’s stunt-driver expert trainer father had wanted an opinion about the handling, though Colby suspected his fiancé might be stealthily trying to discover what sort of car Colby himself might like as a gift—and so he did not jump, or drop his pen, at a noise and an approach.

Los Angeles sun, summer sun, traced his arm. A whisper of breeze ruffled leaves and citrus trees and landscaping, which was still in the process of filling itself out, because they’d only bought the house a few months ago. Everything was growing, though, light and bright as California skies.

Colby thought the trees and the lounge cushions and the blue water of the pool must be happy, being here. He hoped they were. The gold of it felt so bright in his own heart that it almost hurt, except that