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    The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever
    The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever
    The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever
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    The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever

    By B.G. Thomas

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    Before he discovered the Heartland Bear Clan, Ron Corbin figured no one could ever love a “fatass” like him. But the big group of big men accepts him, and likes him just the way he is. Having finally found a place he belongs, he works hard to get elected president of the club—and wins. He’s the happiest he’s ever been.

    But Paddy Brennan, a sexy bear cub who blew into town and became Mr. Popular overnight, is elected vice-president. Ron doesn’t think Paddy has earned the honor, and now he’ll have to work shoulder to shoulder (and belly to belly) with the guy for a year.

    Ron will do what’s best for the club even if that means setting his personal feeling—that Paddy is a jerk—aside. But then as the two men get to know each other, Ron reluctantly finds he not only likes the guy, but is growing more and more attracted to him.

    Deep down, Ron still worries he isn’t good enough, but maybe Paddy can show him there’s a beary happy ending waiting for them after all.

    A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Advent Calendar package "Sleigh Ride".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781634769624
    The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever
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    B.G. Thomas

    B.G. Thomas lives in Kansas City with his two husbands—which yes, is different, but amazingly rewarding and wonderfully romantic. They have two sweet rescue dogs named Oliver (who the breed name Dorkie applies perfectly) and Frodo (who is just learning to be a dog). He is missing his soul dog Sarah Jane very much, but she will live on forever in several of his books and in his heart. He is also blessed to have a lovely daughter and they love to hang out. B.G. loves to read romance, comedy, fantasy, thrillers, mystery, science fiction, and even horror—as far as he is concerned, as long as the stories are character driven and entertaining, it doesn’t matter the genre. He has gone to literature conventions his entire adult life, where he’s been lucky enough to meet many of his favorite writers. He has made up stories since he was a child; it’s where he finds his joy. In the nineties, he wrote for gay adult magazines but stopped because the editors wanted all sex without plot, and edited his setups right out. “The sex is never as important as the characters,” he says. “Who cares what they are doing if we don’t care about them?” Excited about the growing male/male romance market—where setup and cute meets is where it’s at—he began writing again. He submitted a novella and was thrilled when it was accepted in four days. Since then the romantic tales have poured out of him. “It’s like I’m somehow making up for a lifetime’s worth of story-telling!” “Leap, and the net will appear” is his personal philosophy and his message. “It is never too late,” he testifies. “Pursue your dreams. They will come true!” You can read about whatever he’s working on right now or whatever he’s rambling on about at his website/blog at: bthomaswriter.wordpress.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/bgthomaswriter Twitter: twitter.com/BGThomasBooks He is always happy to hear from his readers!

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      The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever - B.G. Thomas

      The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever

      By B.G. Thomas

      Before he discovered the Heartland Bear Clan, Ron Corbin figured no one could ever love a fatass like him. But the big group of big men accepts him, and likes him just the way he is. Having finally found a place he belongs, he works hard to get elected president of the club—and wins. He’s the happiest he’s ever been.

      But Paddy Brennan, a sexy bear cub who blew into town and became Mr. Popular overnight, is elected vice-president. Ron doesn’t think Paddy has earned the honor, and now he’ll have to work shoulder to shoulder (and belly to belly) with the guy for a year.

      Ron will do what’s best for the club even if that means setting his personal feeling—that Paddy is a jerk—aside. But then as the two men get to know each other, Ron reluctantly finds he not only likes the guy, but is growing more and more attracted to him.

      Deep down, Ron still worries he isn’t good enough, but maybe Paddy can show him there’s a beary happy ending waiting for them after all.

      This one is for Catt Ford. For inspiring the story and for having made sure that I have had some of the best novella covers in the world.

      I love you, my friend!

      Acknowledgments

      SPECIAL THANKS to Renae Kaye. Girl! Thank you for what you did to this story! You polished it and gave it its holiday shine.

      To Tricia Kristufek for saving the day! You’re my hero.

      To Stacia Aurore Rose. Your beta skills never cease to amaze me. Thank you.

      And to Ann B. and Jane C., editors par excellence. There are no words to express my gratitude. XOXOXOX

      JULY

      WHEN RON Corbin heard his name announced as the new president of the Heartland Bear Clan, he could hardly contain himself. He bellowed a loud, Yowza, which made everyone laugh. It was only by the grace of God that he kept himself from whooping out, I’m king of the world. After all, hadn’t nearly everyone thought it a very egotistical thing for James Cameron to shout when he won his Oscar for best director?

      Ron had never understood that. It seemed like a logical thing for the Titanic filmmaker to shout. Perfect, actually. The Leonardo DiCaprio line was one of the most famous from the movie. And it was how Cameron must have felt when he won the Academy Award.

      It was certainly how Ron felt when Mel Gunter, the man who had run the club for well over a decade, stood up in front of everyone and declared him as his successor. Ron really did feel like the king of the world. Or at least his world—and his world was the Kansas City bear club.

      There was nothing more important to Ron than the Heartland Bear Clan. In many ways the social group had saved his life—at least he felt that way. He’d been one big old depressed bear when he’d been introduced to the group of men. In fact, once upon a time he’d hated the fact that anyone thought of him as a bear in the first place. Bears were fat. And fat was bad, right? Men who couldn’t stop eating, right? Who couldn’t stick to a diet? Who refused to take care of themselves? Who had no self-pride?

      That’s what he’d thought. What he’d been told over and over and over again.

      "I do not know how you can be a child of mine!" came the voice of his mother.

      Fat! You’re a fatass! came the voice of his father. "My son—my son—a fatass!"

      But the Heartland Bear Clan had changed all of that. Had changed his life. Okay, so he was a bear. Yeah, he was a bit chunky. But not ugly. He’d worked quite a bit to find his style, as well. He kept his brown hair almost military short and his full beard trimmed fairly tight. Yeah, a bear. And a pretty good-looking one. And now, as president of the club he’d devoted so much of his time to, he couldn’t be happier.

      Until he found out who was going be his vice president.

      Paddy Brennan, he cried while pacing the living room of his best friend Billy’s apartment a few hours later. "Jesus H. Christ! How in the world am I supposed to work with that man?"

      Billy, Ron’s best friend and a man who was easily seventy pounds heavier—at least—than Ron, shrugged his massive shoulders in his characteristic fashion. He was huge in every way, and when he shrugged, his whole body did as well. Billy was the epitome of the famous Christmas line about shaking like a bowlful of jelly. Which was appropriate, because the first time Ron ever saw Billy was Christmas weekend, and he was strutting comically around on stage at a bar, dressed in a red negligee and lip-synching to a little ditty called Walking ’Round in Women’s Underwear, a parody of a certain famous Christmas carol.

      It is what it is, dude, Billy said. He scratched at his shaggy beard. I think you just need to make the best of it.

      Ron snarled. He really did—he snarled. The fact that he would have to work shoulder to shoulder with Paddy Brennan was as much a nightmare as winning the presidency of the bear club was a dream come true.

      He sat on his friend’s couch, sighed, and wondered what Billy had to drink. He needed something. Since it was Billy’s place, that probably meant beer, or maybe, if Ron was really lucky, some cheap whiskey. He needed something strong. Tonight he felt like getting drunk. And why not? He didn’t have to drive. He lived three stories up from his friend in the Oscar Wilde, an apartment building built back in the 1920s by the famous Nelle E. Peters, and for some reason (for at least the last quarter century), predominantly rented by gays, lesbians, bisexuals, the transgendered, and the queer spirited of all walks of life.

      I know you think you have a good reason for not liking Paddington—

      Paddy! He even had a bear name. And Paddington Bear was what everyone delighted in calling him! Aaarrgghhhh!

      —although it’s a reason you refuse to tell me.

      And it was a reason he wasn’t planning on ever telling Billy!

      But, God, Ron. He’s a nice guy. And he’s cute, so—

      Cute? Cute? So the hell what? So what if he was (hot) cute? What did that have to do with anything?

      —can’t you give him a chance? You might find you like the guy.

      Fat chance

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