Simon and the Christmas Spirit

By: Bonnie Dee, Summer Devon

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

A Christmas trifle from Devon/Dee.

The holiday spirit has forsaken Simon Harris. A recent reminder of the man who used and then left him sends lonely Simon on a glum visit to his club to while away a few hours. A breath of fresh air in the form of Christopher Andrews is about to enter his stale life. Performer of many talents and faces, Christopher gained entrée into the club to win money at cards. Unfortunately, he's losing. But the evening needn't be a complete disappointment as he strikes up a friendship with a gentleman which ends in a bedroom. Simon and Christopher enjoy a few hours of pleasure together, never expecting to see each other again, but Simon's newfound resolution to change might just transform both their holidays.

A short story, which includes a brief excerpt. Simon and Christopher's future will appear in our next short: Will and the Valentine Saint.

©2015 Bonnie Dee & Summer Devon (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Excellent story and narration

I really enjoyed the story in this book as well as the narration. Collins really brought the characters to life with his pacing, voices, and characterization. The authors, as usual, wrote a great story.

Sweet Christmas novella

It was a bit reminiscent of a Christmas Carol but Simon was merely sad and lonely instead of miserly and cantankerous. Cornell Collins did a very nice job performing the story.

Very enjoyable holiday romance.

I really enjoyed this short and sweet romance story. Nice retelling of 'A Christmas Carol'. As always Cornell Collins ' performance was superb! Seriously Mr. Collins could make listening to a reading of the world's most boring textbooks engaging. Well done!

SIMON GIVES CHRISTMAS TO CHRISTOPHER’S FAMILY

Simon is an aristocrat in the 1840s. Christopher is an actor who is trying to make money to buy the family’s children Christmas presents. They are both gay and find a way to reveal a card cheat and have a tryst in Simon’s club, which Christopher has crashed. This is a cute M/M version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. A lovely story of how life for the gay community was in the 19th century.

The narration is in a proper English tone and makes one think they are in Merry Old England as the story unfolds.

lovely

thoroughly enjoyable bit of holiday happiness.
always enjoy this writing team. another winner.
puts me in the Christmas spirit.

Loved it

It’s a well written, low angst historical romance. I found it on the membership list of audible and would love to read the rest of the authors works.

Touching, thoughtful and lovely

Finding your own special person can be hard, be you rich or poor. Taking a chance and holding on to them despite the expectations of society and your own upbringing is an impressive act of courage beautifully described in this short story. Thank you to Cornell Collins for bringing the hesitant Simon and the vibrant Chistopher to such believable life!

Cute Christmas Carol

Fun story. Nice twist on old Dickens. narration of many different accents very well done

Sweet love at first sight romance

Victorian era, class difference, m/m romance. Short and sweet.
Simon (a well to do gentleman is lonely and broken hearted after he discovers his lover had only been using him for $ and doesn’t actual care for him.

Simon meets Christopher at his gentleman’s club. Only Christopher isn’t actually a member there. Christopher’s brother, Will - (the MC of the next story in the series) is a waiter at the club. And he sneaks Christopher in to try to win $ at cards to help their large family pay for Christmas.
After a sultry rendevous in one of the upstairs rooms, Simon and Christopher part ways, not thinking it possible to meet again.
However, neither man can get the other out of his mind.
When Simon learns that Will got fired from his position at the club, and on Christmas Eve, Simon feels guilty and responsible. Simon/Christopher are in fact a bit responsible, in a round about way— which only makes sense given the time period’s atrocious exploitation of “lessers”, tendency to devalue “the help” and de-humanize the lower classes altogether). So Simon decides to actually follow up on Christopher’s invitation to join his family’s Christmas Day celebrations. Simon shows up at Christopher’s overcrowded home made up of family, friends and “refugees” from the streets. Simon brings lots of presents and food, dressed up as Santa for the children— and it’s very sweet. Simon reveals how smitten he truly is with Christopher, despite all the obstacles of social/class differences. And for once Simon feels a part of a grateful/loving family… as Christopher helps Simon out of his father Christmas attire -wink wink- sexy time.

Sweet and sexy

Cornell Collins is a pleasure to hear any day of the week, his performance is always on point, and hits every emotional note with accuracy. The story is certainly delightful, Simon is sweet and melancholy with his earnest wish to be loved, and his broken heart is even more saddened by being alone at Christmas. But fate smiles at him when the dashing Christopher appears at his club under the guise of a rich man playing at cards. Both men end up in a place they never expected and with feelings they weren't looking for. It is a sweet romance, with a lot of heat for a novella, and full of happy Christmas feelings.