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Keeping Hope by Alexandria Redding
Littleford Fowl, Book 1
After an unstable childhood, Jensen Malone’s hard work is paying off: he’s picked up as a temporary goalie for the Littleford Fowl, brought in to cover for a player who’s out for the season with an injury, and he’s been accepted at the community college. Hockey is his first love, but he needs to stay true to his dream of being a firefighter to guarantee he’ll never be homeless again. Now that he has the chance to pursue both, nothing can stop this fiercely independent transplant from Chicago. One little problem: he’s gay, completely unwilling to stay in the closet, and hockey’s not the most inclusive sport.
Lawrence Paisey’s a defenseman for the Littleford Fowl and he’s got the brooding new goalie in his sights. The guy’s excellent in goal and has a love of hockey to rival Law’s own. Together they could whip the team into shape. Despite his studies and hockey, Law can’t stop fantasizing about Jensen. One little problem: Law needs to win Jensen’s trust to make his dreams come true.
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Jensen stood in the middle of the aisle at Halloween-o-Rama, his lips pressed into a thin line as he regarded the random array of costumes tacked on little pegs along the aisle. Law stood beside him, a little closer than entirely necessary given the lack of people on this particular row. Law looked like he’d won the damn lottery. Jensen still wasn’t entirely certain why he’d agreed to come to this place or why he’d let Law talk him into getting a costume for the team’s Halloween party. He was still broke even with what his brother had sent in the mail the other day; he didn’t have a lot after replenishing items he’d used in his billet home. Not that they’d asked him to, but Jensen still felt a certain responsibility to do so.
He felt like a grouchy old grandpa as he took in the array of bagged costumes. This was ridiculous. They were hockey players and not exactly within normal fitting range of premade costumes, but every time he glanced over at Law and saw the exuberant look on his face, he caved just a little more.
[…]
Three rows later, Law was using him as a shopping basket, piling fake blood, two packs of zombie makeup, and random latex fleshy bits into Jensen’s waiting hands. Gauze, some sort of prosthetic glue, and a bunch of other random shit ended up in his arms, and on top of it all, a plastic sword that confused Jensen immeasurably, though he said nothing.
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I’ve been writing fiction for over sixteen years and technical pieces even longer than that. I began my adventure into fiction within the world of fanfiction and have longed for years to make something I could spill out into the world as fully my own.
While I’ve written other short pieces, I truly wanted one work that I could call a full novel. I’ve put my entire self into writing this book and spent the better part of a year honing it into the novel I’ve presented here.
This book is a culmination of a dream for me, and I can only hope it touches someone the same way it touched me while I wrote it.
To anyone aspiring to write, I tell you do it. To anyone thinking you can’t, you can.
I suppose you came to this section looking for something more about me though, didn’t you? Well, here’s what I can tell you. I’m married to my high school sweetheart. We have two cats, a dog, and a turtle that somehow became ours over the past few years. I love animals, nature, reading, writing, and photography. Quite clearly, I also enjoy the hell out of hockey.
By trade, I’m an engineer who is presently doing database administration, coding, and reporting in support of the company I spent my late teens and twenties dreaming of working for. By hobby, I still write fanfiction. I love to game: Dungeons & Dragons, board games, video games, you name it.
Photography-wise, I love taking photos of landscapes, animals, and architecture. I enjoy doing macro photography of plants. Once upon a time, I aimed to be a professional photographer under this same name and did multiple photoshoots with local models.
As with most authors, I collect pens, notebooks, books, and everything that inspires me, so my life is a little cluttered, but that’s okay.
I end with this… dare to dream, dare to hope, and most of all, dare to be who you truly are.
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