Rainbow Snippets: Six Sentences from “Rough Love”

My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from Rough Love. It was published by Torquere Press: We fell in love over cups of coffee and study dates where we tossed lines of flirtatious Shakespearean dialogue back and forth, letting the bard speak our fledgling emotions. We spent entire afternoons playing songs for … Read more

Rainbow Snippet: Six Sentences from “Far From Home”

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“The tangerine sunlight streaming through the mess hall windows had made Mateo’s light brown skin glow a coppery orange. Sometimes Rajiv missed that Martian light almost as much as he missed Mateo.” … Read more

Rainbow Snippet: Six Sentences from “Born of Fire”

My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from Born of Fire, a fairy tale inspired by Irish folk stories of fairies and fickle magic. It was published by Torquere Press: Lightning shot from the fairies’ fingers toward the terrified young men, striking the ground before their feet and circling around them in … Read more

Rainbow Snippet: Six Sentences from “What You’re Called to Do”

My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from “What You’re Called to Do” in Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology (Cantina Press). The story is about an unemployed journalist whose phone turns him into a part-time cat rescuer. In addition to the feline love, he finds some of the human kind, as well. … Read more

Book Review: Into the Blue by Pene Henson

Summary Tai Talagi and Ollie Birkstrom have been inseparable since they met as kids, surfing the North Shore of Oahu. Now they live with their best friends and Ollie’s kid brother in a pulled-together family, all of them piled into a run-down beach house. They share cooking, bills, and the saltwater running in their veins. … Read more

Boy Meets Boy Reviews gives Love Unmasked 4.5 Hearts

This was the cutest story EVAH!!! OMG so adorable. Aaron is a raccoon shifter in a world full of predatory shifters, so he keeps it to himself. He meets Philip in a coffee house while working on some edits, and they hit it off immediately. Only he can’t seem to come up with a good … Read more

Rainbow Snippet: Six Sentences from “Rough Love”

I’m a little late with my contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from Rough Love, but still here. It was published by Torquere Press: Caffeine made me talk a mile a minute, so I ordered decaf; my nerves made me talk a mile a minute, anyway. Michael seemed to think this was … Read more