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    Lake Effect: A Summertime Gay Wedding Romance: Novellas and Short Stories
    Lake Effect: A Summertime Gay Wedding Romance: Novellas and Short Stories
    Lake Effect: A Summertime Gay Wedding Romance: Novellas and Short Stories
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    Lake Effect: A Summertime Gay Wedding Romance: Novellas and Short Stories

    By Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese

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    When Kyle and Daniel return to their hometown to get married, they find themselves facing an obstacle course of family drama and small-town misadventure. Relatives misbehave, a reformed high school bully shares some surprising news, and the wedding party is in crisis. 

    But all the chaos only cements Kyle and Daniel's desire... for each other and their own happily ever after!

    This story previously appeared in They Do, an anthology published by Torquere Press, June 2014.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAvian30
    Release dateJul 12, 2019
    ISBN9781393757122
    Lake Effect: A Summertime Gay Wedding Romance: Novellas and Short Stories
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    Erin McRae

    Racheline Maltese can fly a plane, sail a boat, and ride a horse, but has no idea how to drive a car; she's based in Brooklyn. Erin McRae has a graduate degree in international affairs for which she focused on the role of social media in the Arab Spring; she's based in Washington DC. Together, they write romance about fame and public life. Like everyone in the 21st century, they met on the Internet. Sign up for Erin and Racheline's newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/65dMz Learn more at their website: http://Avian30.com

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      Lake Effect - Erin McRae

      Coming back home always feels profoundly defeatist to Kyle. That's been true every time they've been back in the three years since his boyfriend Daniel packed up his barber shop and moved with Kyle down to Pittsburgh. It's especially true now that they're coming back to Rochester to get married.

      Part of the problem is Kyle's family, who have never been thrilled that Kyle's dating a guy nine years older than him. Or that he's dating a guy at all. At least his mother is slightly less hysterical about the situation now that he's in college. But only slightly.

      Part of it is just Rochester itself. Everything feels grayer, smaller, and more worn out every time he comes back. It's not particularly the atmosphere either of them want associated with their wedding. ut the arrangements are cheaper and, as both of their mothers keep reminding them, Rochester is where their families are.

      Kyle's mother has also started reminding him that he should look for jobs so he'll have something to do when he moves back after graduation next summer, as if Pittsburgh and his college degree is a lark and not, clearly, a very permanent step up. She also keeps acting like he'll be coming back alone, and her whole it-will-disappear-if-I-ignore-it charade is just ridiculous when it's not absurdly offensive. Especially since she’s known Daniel forever. Which may be part of the problem. Because before Daniel was Kyle’s boyfriend, he was Kyle’s older brother’s best friend.

      Kyle's been pissed enough about it that he hasn't found a way to tell her that neither of them are coming back to Rochester all.

      He wakes up the day before the wedding—gray, hot, and humid, predictably, because Lake Ontario means Rochester gets the most unpleasant weather possible in any season—when his phone chimes on the nightstand. Hey sleepyhead. You gonna join us today?

      Kyle frowns drowsily and texts back, Couldn't come get me up yourself? He’s tired of other people already. Except Daniel, of course. He’s never gotten tired of Daniel yet, though he acknowledges there’s a statistical possibility he will, at some future point. But for right now he wants to curl up with his fiancé in bed and laze for the rest of the morning. Preferably without clothes on.

      I'd love to, Daniel replies.  but I don't think the family would appreciate it ;)

      The winky face doesn't entirely disguise the fact that Daniel's being serious. Neither of their families are

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