My Present This Year

In the world of obscure fandoms, there lies an unlikely candidate: the 2009 Folgers commercial titled, innocuously, "Coming Home." Having been a fan of this commercial and its V.C. Andrews-ian subtext for many years, I decided to at last enter the halls of the vaunted "Coming Home" fandom this year and submit my own take on the story...

This story was originally written for the Twelve Naughty Days anthology in 2021.

Nick is coming home for Christmas, and he only wants two things:

1) a cup of coffee, hot enough to reglaze the inside of his cermaic mug.

2) not to see his far-too-gorgeous, far-too-forbidden stepsister.

But it's none other than his stepsister opening the door to welcome him home, and there's not enough hot coffee in the world to distract Nick from how much he's tempted to make Nora his own...