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A Little Familiar

par R. Cooper

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A powerful witch, Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can't know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side. The presence of a friendly familiar is enough to keep even the loneliest witch sane, and yet Piotr deliberately hasn't chosen one. He forces himself to keep busy instead, but the emptiness of his house haunts him even more the spirit of Great-Great-Aunt Elysia in the parlor. With Samhain and Halloween approaching, he'll have much to do, and knowing that, his concerned coven seizes the chance to intervene and sends help to his door in the form of Bartleby Dorchester. The rarest of rare jewels, Bartleby is a human familiar: a witch with no magic of his own, and a desire to find a strong witch to help and serve. In particular, he desires to help and serve Piotr, and everything in Piotr wants to let him. Bartleby was meant to be his familiar; Piotr knows it as surely as he knows when it will rain or when the apples in his garden will ripen. But what Piotr wants from Bartleby, all he's ever wanted, is for Bartleby to love him, something he thinks is impossible. Russells live and die unloved, and he won't allow Bartleby to feel obligated to spend his life with him as his familiar if he could be happy in love with someone else. But Samhain is a time for change, when walls come down and borders grow thin, and Bartleby isn't going to waste what might be his last chance to convince Piotr that they were meant to be. He might have no magic, but love is a power all its own.… (plus d'informations)
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audio fiction, series (~3.5 hrs) - gay witch Halloween romance.
October reading challenge: pumpkin on cover; takes place around Samhain/Halloween; witch protagonist.

Lonely, almost-30 y.o. gay witch Piotr lacks a familiar and crushes on genderqueer fellow witch Bartleby Dorchester, who happens to be a "human familiar" assigned to help him out before Samhain, and who might also be romantically interested in Piotr, but Piotr has multiple hangups (mainly, abandonment issues and a belief that he is unlovable/doomed to live alone) so doesn't realize how perfect they are for each other.

One of those slow-building romances, told over a handful of episodes of the would-be couple spending time together before some final steamy scenes. There's a pumpkin patch, a lot of baking, a meddling but well-meaning ghost, a power outage, and a rainstorm. ( )
  reader1009 | Oct 7, 2023 |
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the only word I can use to describe this is magical. the whole reading experience was so real I could almost taste the pumpkin and apples. the soft pining was great, and ghosts and familiars, and Bartleby is literally exactly my kind of person, and the DESCRIPTIONS in this novella were so good! I mean, just look at this: although his rage was the gentlest rage imaginable, the briefest, quietest maelstrom in a teacup.

or this: His anger was fierce and soft, stinging like kitten’s claws.

OR THIS: He was a giant holding a rose petal. He was a bear permitted to cup a kitten in his paw, when he deserved no such prize.

I have to admit the pining sometimes got frustrating because it went on for so many years and it /didn't have to/ if only Piotr knew how to communicate, but at the same time I loved it. I would fall in love with Bartleby too. so soft and pure.

He wasn’t genderfluid, at least, not how Piotr understood the term, but then again perhaps he was. Bartleby was… Bartleby. He wore what he chose to wear and acted how he chose to act. He’d never requested to be addressed by another pronoun or name, he simply was, like a trickster deity of old, although one not interested in deception. ( )
  runtimeregan | Jun 12, 2019 |
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A powerful witch, Piotr Russell has resigned himself to loneliness, because ordinary humans can't know what he is, and other witches are intimidated by his abilities. Generations of Russells have lived and died with only their familiars at their side. The presence of a friendly familiar is enough to keep even the loneliest witch sane, and yet Piotr deliberately hasn't chosen one. He forces himself to keep busy instead, but the emptiness of his house haunts him even more the spirit of Great-Great-Aunt Elysia in the parlor. With Samhain and Halloween approaching, he'll have much to do, and knowing that, his concerned coven seizes the chance to intervene and sends help to his door in the form of Bartleby Dorchester. The rarest of rare jewels, Bartleby is a human familiar: a witch with no magic of his own, and a desire to find a strong witch to help and serve. In particular, he desires to help and serve Piotr, and everything in Piotr wants to let him. Bartleby was meant to be his familiar; Piotr knows it as surely as he knows when it will rain or when the apples in his garden will ripen. But what Piotr wants from Bartleby, all he's ever wanted, is for Bartleby to love him, something he thinks is impossible. Russells live and die unloved, and he won't allow Bartleby to feel obligated to spend his life with him as his familiar if he could be happy in love with someone else. But Samhain is a time for change, when walls come down and borders grow thin, and Bartleby isn't going to waste what might be his last chance to convince Piotr that they were meant to be. He might have no magic, but love is a power all its own.

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