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

My sketchpad beckoned. When Wilbur and I returned with it, Carrie and Patrick were having a serious discussion about hormone therapy. Carrie had a ton of questions, many of which Patrick was able to answer. I joined him on the padded bench off to the side of the bed, and Wilbur settled at my feet. Jefferson and Calvin were with us, too, in mannequin form, just a couple feet away where we’d left them after “Sharp Dressed Man,” in front of the huge display of movie DVDs and music on CDs.


I did sketches of Carrie and Patrick flying, and then grabbed a box of crayons and two clipboards across the aisle in Office Supplies, so they could color their comic-book-like portraits as I started on another, one more true-to-life. True to life, but whose? This time, I had no idea who I was drawing.


“You’re so good!” Carrie said when she looked at herself and Patrick as superheroes. “I wish I had a talent.”


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