Rainbow Snippet 7/17/2021

 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.  Today's snippet is from the same WIP as the previous one.

This is from my current WIP, featuring a retired MMA fighter who can't stay out of his own way long enough to see that the two guys he's fallen for are only trying to look out to keep him safe, not smother him with their concerns over some of his behaviors. Turns out his friends are just as concerned, which is why they've shown up at his door. 

“Hey, wait a minute,” Jesse interrupted, turning to study Jaylon. “Didn’t you say you guys were going out up until ten days ago?”

“Sure did.”

“It’s been nine days since any of us have heard from him,” Jesse said. “Hitting seven was what triggered this little road trip.”

“That’s one more day than I got,” Jaylon replied. “Owen and I came over to tell him goodbye before we headed out for a few engagements I needed to attend to, only to find that he’d left on a little hiking expedition before we had the chance to. We only just got back this afternoon and as you saw when I started to come in here, he tried to slam the door in my face.”

“That’s a new one,” Nick said. “He usually has much better manners than that.”

“Oh really, so what’s his typical way of breaking up with someone?”

“He doesn’t have one,” Nick replied. “His method has always been to avoid entanglements in the first place.”

“Yeah, that might have been kinder in this case.”

Ouch.