From a tiny acorn grows a mighty oak, so it is with love. Undaunted by rain, snow, thunder and lighting, and even a tornado, Goose and Patrick weathered many storms from first meeting to marriage. By their side through it all, Jefferson and Calvin shared their own love story as Goose and Patrick’s guides through the present and the past and their guardian angels in Heaven and on Earth. Contains the stories: Ghost Writer: Goose is finally allowing himself to feel something again, something like love. He and Jefferson have both been through a lot, war and escaping their abusive exes. There are two problems, though. Jefferson belongs to someone else, and he’s a ghost. While Goose tries to save a tree planted by Jefferson’s lover over a hundred years ago, Jefferson tries to heal Goose’s heart, broken far too long. Snowed In: Goose and Patrick: Four men, two in this realm and two in another, fight all sorts of obstacles, including war, separation, family dysfunction, racial prejudice, homophobia, and their own inner demons to fall in love and explore or recapture their sexuality. Each pair, from this century and one in the past, help the other along the way. Nine Minutes in Heaven: Goose’s lover Patrick ends up on one side of the light, with Jefferson and Calvin. Goose’s family and his dog, Wilbur, are on this side. When Goose is seriously injured and faced with a choice between Heaven and Earth, he finds the decision impossible to make, which could result in him being stuck somewhere in between. Ghosts of Honor: Goose and Patrick have weathered many storms, literally, a massive blizzard and figuratively, death. Will a tornado on their wedding day, a group of ghostly crashers, Goose’s distraction, and Patrick’s lingering emotional pain after the attack be too much to make it through this time?

Weathering the Storms Box Set

“It is. But there’s a lesson.” I was supposed to say, “Life goes on,” but how could I? “The lesson is friendship is everything and people, or pigs and spiders, are better together than alone.” I hoped I’d salvaged something there.


When I got to I-90, I had a decision to make.


“Why are you smiling?” Jefferson asked.


“I was just wondering if you qualify us for the carpool lane.” I decided against it.


We sang along to the radio, mostly country. It wasn’t my genre of choice, per se, but since I was too cheap to pony up for satellite, I had to settle for the stations that came in despite us being surrounded by mountains. Jefferson would join me the second or third time through the choruses. He caught on quickly, even imitating Willie Nelson’s twang in “On the Road Again.” I was having a blast. It had been a long time since I’d taken a road trip with a buddy. When Wilbur and I went to the grocery store, we only got to hear one or two songs. The store was pretty close to home.


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