Rainbow Snippet 5/15/21

 

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.

A little more than 6 lines, but the opening to book 4 of the comet lake pack chronicles. 

Emrys, are you illiterate, or just too stupid to understand when someone wants nothing at all to do with you?

Hands shoved in his pockets, Emrys stared down at the neon orange words painted in the brilliant white snow, heart hammering erratically as other wolves gave a wide berth as they went past. A few snickering but one called out to him to give it up man, it’s beyond sad now.

The wolf was right. Emrys knew it. He’d managed two weeks without leaving a note for his mate to find. But late last night, after the snow stopped and the rest of the town was silent, he’d crept back to the square. A glutton for punishment, that’s what he was. The whole time he was painting his question in the snow, he’d told himself he was being an absolute fool, hoping his mate had reconsidered wanting to meet him.

That message had been drawn through with several angry black lines and stomped with heavy boot prints, clearly conveying his mate’s state of mind. The wolf wasn’t just annoyed now, but clearly angry that Emrys kept trying to get to know them, which was made perfectly clear by the second line of his response.

If you were the only other wolf left in the universe, I’d choose to die alone rather than ever spend a single second in your company, now leave me the fuck alone, before I tell the people you’re running from where and how to find you.