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    By Nash Summers

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    Heaven is rays of sunlight dancing slowly on wheat stalks. It's wind twirling itself around chimes hung from low tree branches, and robust bursts of scent and color, far beyond anything describable with words.

    Heaven is a flightless crow, a promise of forever tied to a necklace, and hidden love letters tucked away safely inside a tree.

    Heaven is a fire-haired boy named Rust and his love for Ancel, a boy full of storm clouds.

    Heaven is all the tiny threads of hope that hold them together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNash Summers
    Release dateJun 3, 2015
    ISBN9781310197833
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      Table of Contents

      Love is an Open Road

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      Before

      During

      During

      After

      Author Bio

      Love is an Open Road

      An M/M Romance series

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      By Nash Summers

      Introduction

      The story you are about to read celebrates love, sex and romance between men. It is a product of the Love is an Open Road promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and is published as a gift to you.

      What Is Love is an Open Road?

      The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image; authors from the group were encouraged to select a letter and write an original tale. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what these authors do.

      A written description of the image that inspired this story is provided along with the original request letter. If you’d like to view the photo, please feel free to join the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and visit the discussion section: Love is an Open Road.

      No matter if you are a long-time devotee to M/M Romance, just new to the genre or fall somewhere in between, you are in for a delicious treat.

      Words of Caution

      This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.

      Each year, a dedicated group of Volunteers from the M/M Romance Group work hard behind the scenes to bring these stories to you. Our Editors, Formatters, Proofreaders, and those working on Quality Assurance, spend many long hours over a course of several months so that each Event is a success. As each and every author also gives freely of their time and talent, it was decided that all edits suggested may be accepted or rejected by the author at any given time. For this reason, some stories will appear to be more tightly edited than others, depending on the choice of the author.This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved worldwide.

      This eBook may be distributed freely in its entirety courtesy of the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. This eBook may not be sold, manipulated or reproduced in any format without the express written permission of the author.

      fawn, Copyright © 2015 Nash Summers

      Cover Art by Natasha Snow

      This ebook is published by the M/M Romance Group and is not directly endorsed by or affiliated with Goodreads Inc.

      M/M Romance Group Publication

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      Photo Description

      The backs of two teenage boys holding hands, one slightly leaning in toward the other. They’re walking through a field, illuminated by the sunlight in front of them. Around them are tall grasses and yellow stalks of wheat.

      Story Letter

      Dear Author,

      The guy on the left finds everything beautiful. Creepily so. He makes art out of road kill, writes love letters to people he’s never met, and stares incessantly at pretty men without them ever noticing. He spotted the guy on the right walking his dog through fields, and made him his newest object of affection. Only problem was, when he started staring at this guy, he stared back.

      Sincerely,

      Beth

      Story Info

      Genre: contemporary

      Tags: first time, hurt/comfort, men with pets, reunited, slow burn/UST, bullying

      Content Warnings: Some non-sexual child abuse, verbal and physical, to one MC when in his teens

      Word Count: 26,831

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      Ancel,

      People talk about how beautiful trees are in autumn. Arrays of oranges, yellows, and reds float from the branches and flutter down into their bouquets on the ground. Colors so vivid, they make the world look dull in comparison to their oversaturation.

      I’ve always wondered why no one talks about the beauty in winter. Or summer. Or all the tiny mixtures of seasons in between.

      Winter brings the crystals of frost to the blades of grass that are just beginning to change color. The air becomes cold, and just for a few magical moments, you can puff out a lung full of air and see the icy color of your own breath.

      Summer is full of being. Life isn’t a big enough word for summer because summer brings everything with it when it comes. It brings big storm clouds to drown out the sunlight, and so many shades of green, I couldn’t hope to count them in my lifetime if I started now and never did a single other thing.

      And then there are those times in between.

      Those are the times that take the crisp arc of winter and let it dance with the fresh grass of the spring. Or the times when the summer lakes start allowing the gentle ease of coolness on top of their waters. Or the times when the wind blows freely through the long stalks of grass and cattails, and twirls around the fields like it’s thinking of starting a hurricane.

      You? You’re all those special times in between.

      You’re those frozen moments that everyone forgets to breathe during. You’re what I reach out for, but just can’t seem to touch. You’re those hours of silence that pull themselves longer and longer until there’s nothing left of them but a faint memory of a Once Upon a Time.

      But don’t worry— I won’t forget you like you’ve forgotten me.

      I can’t stop fawning over your ghost.

      Rust

      ****

      Before

      As I walked through the tall fields of grass and weeds that surrounded me, I stared up into the clouds and daydreamed about Heaven. The afternoon sky was that pure, crisp blue that only seemed to exist in forgotten places or books with Happily Ever Afters. Wind blew through the tall stalks of grass, brushing them as easily as a musician runs their fingers over piano keys. Bright rays of sunlight shone down on my face, warming my cheeks like a kiss from a lover. And the smell— that fresh, robust smell of wheat stalks and lilacs wafted through the air easily like a calm fog.

      Everything sang together harmoniously like it always did. It breathed its own life and existed like it had been there since the beginning of time.

      I was in Heaven.

      Heaven was a small town. So small, in fact, that I figured no one outside of Heaven even knew we existed. But that didn’t matter, because to me, nothing existed outside of Heaven.

      It was one of those warm communities where everybody knew each other’s name, and no one locked their doors at night. When we had town functions, the entire town showed up, and if someone was missing, everyone else would know why. In a town as small as Heaven, everybody knew everybody.

      We had one traffic light in the center of town, and when it had been installed a few years back, it was big news. It was in the Heaven Herald and everything. We had two schools, but they were separated by grades. There was one shop for everything down on Main Street— a flower shop, a bakery, a toy store. No two shops ever opened that sold the same thing, and why would they? We had everything we needed here.

      The houses were all small and unique— each painted its own color with customized front porches that someone’s grandpa made, and driveways that flowed straight onto the road without even a curb. If someone new moved into town, everybody talked about it like a movie star was moving in next door. And then everyone would get together

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