Review: An Open Window by Rick R. Reed

Title: An Open Window

Author: Rick R. Reed

Length: 21 Pages

Category: Contemporary Holiday Romance

At a Glance: This Christmas short is just pure magic. Tender and emotional, An Open Window has earned a place at the top of my Christmas list!

Reviewed By: Sammy

Blurb: Two men. One Christmas Eve that changes the courses of both their lives.

Henry’s homeless and only wants a warm place to sleep on the coldest night of the year. A forgotten open window in a darkened house entices Henry inside with the promise of warmth and comfort. He knows it’s wrong, but he promises himself he’ll be out before the owner wakes on Christmas morning. Except he oversleeps and the homeowner, Jim, discovers a bearded stranger sawing logs under his dining room table. When the shock and the drama that ensues dies down, Henry and Jim discover that they might have found, quite unexpectedly, the Christmas miracle they’d both been longing for—love and home.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar “Stocking Stuffers.”

Review: Henry has fallen so far he’s not sure if he will ever climb out of the gutter he’s landed in. Homeless, with no job, money, car, or friends to speak of, all Henry wants is a safe place to sleep for the night. It’s Christmas Eve and it’s snowing, big time, and Henry is freezing. Then, he sees it—an open window—and while he is very reluctant to add breaking and entering to the long list of woes he has endured, he has to get warm for the night. Little does Henry realize that the open window he climbs into is going to change his life forever.

I want to wrap author Rick R. Reed in the biggest hug right now. An Open Window is twenty-one pages of one of the sweetest Christmas stories I have ever read. This one is full of hope and love and all the best things that Christmas should be. Told to us by both main characters as they remember another Christmas Eve many years before, you cannot help but fall in love with these men by the end of this lovely short story, particularly Jim. There is a peaceful ambiance about this story that makes It one of those you wish someone would read aloud to you while you sip a warm drink and sit by your own fire to enjoy it. This Christmas short is just pure magic. Tender and emotional, An Open Window has earned a place at the top of my Christmas list!

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