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    Kiss Me At Kwanzaa
    Kiss Me At Kwanzaa
    Kiss Me At Kwanzaa
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    Kiss Me At Kwanzaa

    By L.L. Bucknor

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    A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology

    KIS ME AT KWANZAA
    by L.L. BUCKNOR

    Coworkers and cubicle mates, Ishmael "Ish" Cutter and Adan Flores might come from different backgrounds but they have a good number of things in common. The biggest one? They each have a secret crush on the other. This holiday season they are both single for the first time in thirteen months. No boyfriends or clingy ex issues - maybe it's time for Adan to make his move? He formulates the perfect plan and invites Ish over for his family's Kwanzaa feast...but will he have the courage to make the first move or will this holiday season be one to forget?

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    ABOUT BOUGHS OF EVERGREEN

    Boughs of Evergreen is a two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different walks of life.

    Themes of family, friendship and romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Eid, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness.

    Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781909192812
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      Kiss Me At Kwanzaa - L.L. Bucknor

      Boughs of Evergreen

      A Holiday Anthology

      KISS ME AT KWANZAA

      by

      L.L. Bucknor

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Copyright 2014 L.L. Bucknor.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      This novel is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.

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      Coworkers and cubicle mates, Ishmael Ish Cutter and Adan Flores might come from different backgrounds but they have a good number of things in common. The biggest one? They each have a secret crush on the other. This holiday season they are both single for the first time in thirteen months. No boyfriends or clingy ex issues - maybe it's time for Adan to make his move? He formulates the perfect plan and invites Ish over for his family's Kwanzaa feast...but will he have the courage to make the first move or will this holiday season be one to forget?

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      For my crazy family. Love you guys. Happy Holidays!

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      Table of Contents

      Kiss Me At Kwanzaa

      About the Author

      Boughs of Evergreen – A Holiday Anthology

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      Kiss Me At Kwanzaa

      What are your plans for the holidays, Ish? If you’re here the day before Christmas Eve, you must be staying local, Freddy asked as he leaned on Ish’s cubicle wall.

      Ishmael Cutter, or Ish as he was known, liked having workday chats with his coworkers…usually. But holiday celebrations weren’t his go-to topic of choice. He didn’t hate Christmas or the other major holidays, but having to deal with snowflake-encrusted jingle bell decorations, the bulked-up shopping crowds on the weekend (and weekdays, as it got closer to Christmas) or the god-awful Christmas music, made him want to shove a candy cane up someone’s nose. Forget torture devices, you wanted to break a man, force Christmas music down his throat until gingerbread goo bled from his ears.

      Music which Freddy, the office nice guy, played non-stop in their office from Thanksgiving onwards, and Ish didn’t want to be the office Scrooge by asking him to change the station. He was the newbie. Well, he should say, he and his cubicle-mate, friend and secret crush, Adan Flores, were the newbies in the office. They were hired as human resources generalists, two weeks apart, a little

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