Saturday, June 4, 2016

Rainbow Snippets June 4th



Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).

In this group you’ll find anything from romance and historical fiction to mystery and YA. The common thread is that every story’s main character identifies as LGBTQ+. The snippets could range from zero flames to full-on sexytimes, anything goes content-wise. The only rule is snippets will be 6 sentences long–one for each color in the Pride flag.



I would invite everyone to please come check out the Rainbow Snippets group, click on a link, read and comment on the writing available and get involved yourselves in this awesome exercise. The link to the group can be found HERE

Well my long road trip is over and I'm back home with stable internet. It wasn't as hard as I thought, going without, though I missed being able to do snippets and my freebie friday story. So here is a Snippet from my new Novella which was released on June First. Spider Webs and Cover Art from MLR Press. I'm sorry, more than 6 lines, I know. 

She laughed at that and just shook her head at him, “So then what does it mean?”
Jace glanced down at his wrist and the empty spot where the tattoo would go. A reminder never to cut there, a reminder never to hurt too much to tell someone he was in pain, a reminder of just how much it hurt to lose someone and be left wondering what you could have done to help and if you could have saved them.
“Hope,” Jace said at last, taking a deep breath and letting it out slow. “It’s an invitation, a conversation starter, a way to remember those who weren’t able to save themselves. It’s a reminder to look a little closer, ask questions, never forget that someone you love might be suffering from something that they don’t understand or aren’t able to share.”
“All that from a semi-colon?” she asked skeptically as she turned back to the screen.

“It made you ask, didn’t it?”


12 comments:

  1. I have a whole lot of love for this snippet. No words, just a whole lot of love that I don't have words to express.

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  2. Beautiful dialogue and description, dancing around each other and the tattoo on Jace's arm.

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  3. Jace is right, it did make her ask. Lovely snippet.

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  4. Great snippet, very thought provoking.

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  5. Love the emotion in this scene. :-)

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  6. Jace's emotions come through so strongly.

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  7. Great last line - brought a smile through the sadness.

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  8. Love this snippet! <3 I've been trying to figure out where my semicolon tat is going to go.

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  9. Woo hoo. Loving so hard on this snippet for so many reasons. One of them is that I love semi colons and they are treated so, so badly by editors, I'm happy that they get elevated to where they belong :D

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  10. Love that last line, and this whole snippet.

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