Mitten Love

by Tam Ames

Arnie's day is not going according to plan. The welding equipment at work is not cooperating, and he's going to be late for the knitting class he teaches at the local GLBT Center. His day improves when his client turns out to be Crispin, a professor at a local college and one of his students. Crispin invites him for dinner after class and offers to show him his mittens, the first things he ever knit. Arnie's not sure if that's code for something more or not, but he's willing to take the chance and find out.

This story was originally written for KZ Snow's blog, but has been edited for distribution at the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet in Brighton, UK.

Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, Romance, Short Stories

16 pages, ebook

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

I'm a recently retired mom of a great adult daughter. I started reading m/m romance in 2008, then went to reviewing and then writing.

Some dares and prompting of friends led me to the role of author and they've always been my biggest cheerleaders.

I'm mostly a reader these days though and playing on Instagram hyping up favourite reads and authors.

Reviews

[Camy · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5
It was okay. The voice is decidedly female, what with all the cooing and shrieking etc.
The development and pacing are poor and the characters are flat.

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute story about a wilder, who teaches knitting in a community center, and a university professor, who takes his knitting class.

After reading this, you'll never see mittens as before (good thing I'm in Hawaii, so we don't need them :-)

[Deeze · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was expecting a fun sweet read, but unfortunately this one fell flat for me. I guess I just never felt the silliness as sexy or fun.

[Mandy*reads obsessively* · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun free short!
A welder and a professor with a PhD in physics bonding over knitting!
And a naughty use of color clashing mittens!
Read it! :)

[Stephenie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is basically fluff, no plot at all. I was hoping for a bit more than fleeting references to their lives and the yarn craft that brings them together.

[Elizabetta]

Free short on GR download.

[Heller · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yup, that was mitten love.

[Audrey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute enough, but I just didn't like the voice. Short freebie.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and fun! Fortunately the feltching was only talked about and not done or overly described (almost didn't read the story 'cause of the preface referring to it)

Re-read 12/12/13

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 - This short story was too cute. I’ll never look at knitted mittens the same again :)