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Nick & Carter Holiday #20
Thanksgiving, 1947
Thursday, November 27, 1947
It's Thanksgiving and Nick is cooking a veritable feast!
Roast turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, an assortment of vegetables, and even Nick's first attempt at an apple pie are all on the menu.
Nick and Carter have been dating for just over three months and it's their first holiday together.
It's also an opportunity for Nick to introduce Carter to all his friends.
However...
Jeffery is out of town... Mack is in one of his moods... Janet isn't returning Nick's phone calls...
Oh, well...
At least Mike is available to join Carter and Henry for dinner at Nick's new apartment on Jones Street.
There's certainly plenty of food!
So, won't you join in on all the food, the fun, and the festivities?
What can go wrong when two new lovers bring their old flames to dinner and everyone gets a chance to meet?
More turkey, anyone?
Welcome to a year of holidays with Nick Williams and Carter Jones!
This is the twentieth in a series of short stories and novellas all centered around specific holidays.
Each story is a vignette that stands on its own and takes place from the 1920s to 2008.
This is a short story containing about 10,000 words.
It's Thanksgiving and Nick is cooking a veritable feast!
Roast turkey, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, an assortment of vegetables, and even Nick's first attempt at an apple pie are all on the menu.
Nick and Carter have been dating for just over three months and it's their first holiday together.
It's also an opportunity for Nick to introduce Carter to all his friends.
However...
Jeffery is out of town... Mack is in one of his moods... Janet isn't returning Nick's phone calls...
Oh, well...
At least Mike is available to join Carter and Henry for dinner at Nick's new apartment on Jones Street.
There's certainly plenty of food!
So, won't you join in on all the food, the fun, and the festivities?
What can go wrong when two new lovers bring their old flames to dinner and everyone gets a chance to meet?
More turkey, anyone?
Welcome to a year of holidays with Nick Williams and Carter Jones!
This is the twentieth in a series of short stories and novellas all centered around specific holidays.
Each story is a vignette that stands on its own and takes place from the 1920s to 2008.
This is a short story containing about 10,000 words.
- GenresGay
38 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 26, 2020
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Frank W. Butterfield
123 books106 followersFrank W. Butterfield, not an assumed name, loves old movies, wise-cracking smart guys with hearts of gold, and writing for fun.
Although he worships San Francisco, he lives at the beach on another coast.
Born on a windy day in November of 1966, he was elected President of his high school Spanish Club in the spring of 1983.
After moving across these United States like a rapid-fire pinball, he currently makes his home in a hurricane-proof apartment with superior water pressure that was built in 1926.
While he hasn't met any dolphins personally, that invitation is always open.
Although he worships San Francisco, he lives at the beach on another coast.
Born on a windy day in November of 1966, he was elected President of his high school Spanish Club in the spring of 1983.
After moving across these United States like a rapid-fire pinball, he currently makes his home in a hurricane-proof apartment with superior water pressure that was built in 1926.
While he hasn't met any dolphins personally, that invitation is always open.
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December 2, 2020
Thanksgiving 1947 (Nick & Carter Holidays 20)
By Frank W. Butterfield
Published by the author 2020
Five stars
When Frank Butterfield offers his readers a poignant micro-view of the world he created for Nick Williams and Carter Jones, you can’t help but feel the love.
The moment here is the Thanksgiving dinner that Nick prepares entirely himself in his new apartment. He is still working as an orderly at a local hospital, but his world has changed—a fact that only his ex, Mike Robertson, knows. This is also the moment when Mike will meet Carter Jones for the first time—along with Carter’s ex from Georgia, Henry Winters.
So, this is an enormously weighty moment in the twenty-year arc of the Nick Williams Mysteries. As devoted readers of Butterfield’s historical fantasy, we know what came before and what will follow; but we get to share in this intimate celebration where Nick’s past and future meet. This story is rich in little details that resonated with me, because I have so much of Nick and Carter’s narrative in my head.
What a jewel of a holiday gift when we need it most.
By Frank W. Butterfield
Published by the author 2020
Five stars
When Frank Butterfield offers his readers a poignant micro-view of the world he created for Nick Williams and Carter Jones, you can’t help but feel the love.
The moment here is the Thanksgiving dinner that Nick prepares entirely himself in his new apartment. He is still working as an orderly at a local hospital, but his world has changed—a fact that only his ex, Mike Robertson, knows. This is also the moment when Mike will meet Carter Jones for the first time—along with Carter’s ex from Georgia, Henry Winters.
So, this is an enormously weighty moment in the twenty-year arc of the Nick Williams Mysteries. As devoted readers of Butterfield’s historical fantasy, we know what came before and what will follow; but we get to share in this intimate celebration where Nick’s past and future meet. This story is rich in little details that resonated with me, because I have so much of Nick and Carter’s narrative in my head.
What a jewel of a holiday gift when we need it most.
November 27, 2020
My heart melted
I always enjoy reading these little gems. Loved the verbal foreplay between Nick and Carter in the kitchen as Mike and Henry made small talk in the dining room in Nick’s apartment. The dueling conversations was brilliantly written. But my absolute fave part of this novella was after Thanksgiving dinner when Nick left to go to the store to get some smokes and Mike had “the talk” with Carter. He asked Carter if he loved Nick. My heart melted at Carter’s response.
I always enjoy reading these little gems. Loved the verbal foreplay between Nick and Carter in the kitchen as Mike and Henry made small talk in the dining room in Nick’s apartment. The dueling conversations was brilliantly written. But my absolute fave part of this novella was after Thanksgiving dinner when Nick left to go to the store to get some smokes and Mike had “the talk” with Carter. He asked Carter if he loved Nick. My heart melted at Carter’s response.
November 29, 2020
This story was a very “feel good” addition to the series. It showed the deep love Nick and Mike have, even though they are no longer in a intimate relationship. It also is the beginning of Nick and Carter’s relationship, it is nice to witness that. And we get to see what an obnoxious jerk Henry really is. I enjoyed experiencing the beginning of Nick and Carter, it made me feel optimistic.
November 29, 2020
Okay, I just want to say again what a great idea this series of holiday stories is. We get little glimpses into characters we know at dramatically different times of life - this one, just three months into their relationship. Great idea, so nicely realized.
November 24, 2022
Yet another winner in the Nick and Carter Holiday series. I'm really loving this novella/short story series as it hits so many holidays not spoken of nearly enough in literature of any genre but especially LGBT stories. I do have to say that of all the shorts in this collection I've read, Thanksgiving, 1947 probably left me with the most blanks/gaps in character references and relationship elements having not read the original Nick and Carter series. Were these gaps wide enough to take away enjoying? Not at all. I was never lost, if anything it just furthered the steps up on my TBR list for the originals. Hopefully in 2023 the clock will allow me to jump into them.
Not going to spoil anything(like you didn't know that was coming) but once again a glimpse into the couple's early days together is lovely done and definitely leaves a smile on your face. I will say that two points that really stood out for me was Nick listening to The Guiding Light on the radio and him making sausage stuffing. My parents bought me a cassette of an episode of Fibber McGee & Molly for my 10th birthday and I fell in love with it and have collected hundreds of hours of Old Radio Shows over the years, even got a subscription to Sirius XM just to listen to the old radio shows network in the car so including listening to Guiding Light was a welcomed moment. As for the sausage stuffing? That's the only kind of stuffing we've ever had in our family and yet it is so rarely used in fiction. Honestly there are so many odd recipes out there for stuffing/dressing that are used more that I personally wouldn't want to even touch let alone taste so Nick going old school(and yes I know it's set in 1947 so of course it's going to be old school/old fashioned) for stuffing was another welcomed touch.
Not going to spoil anything(like you didn't know that was coming) but once again a glimpse into the couple's early days together is lovely done and definitely leaves a smile on your face. I will say that two points that really stood out for me was Nick listening to The Guiding Light on the radio and him making sausage stuffing. My parents bought me a cassette of an episode of Fibber McGee & Molly for my 10th birthday and I fell in love with it and have collected hundreds of hours of Old Radio Shows over the years, even got a subscription to Sirius XM just to listen to the old radio shows network in the car so including listening to Guiding Light was a welcomed moment. As for the sausage stuffing? That's the only kind of stuffing we've ever had in our family and yet it is so rarely used in fiction. Honestly there are so many odd recipes out there for stuffing/dressing that are used more that I personally wouldn't want to even touch let alone taste so Nick going old school(and yes I know it's set in 1947 so of course it's going to be old school/old fashioned) for stuffing was another welcomed touch.
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December 22, 2020Unlike a few of the recent stories in this series I've read (out of sequence) this is positively joyful. Nick and Carter, still in the very early stages of their relationship, are joined by Mike, who has yet to meet Carter, and Henry for the Thanksgiving meal cooked by Nick. Henry leaves early but the meal - and the meeting - are successful. (And the ending is so sweet that it almost makes up for some of the melancholy of the 2002 story... )
October 29, 2025
Entertaining
Great short story, providing some historical background for Nick and Carter’s relationship from the early days. Interesting insights and local flavor.
Great short story, providing some historical background for Nick and Carter’s relationship from the early days. Interesting insights and local flavor.
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