Rainbow Snippets

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group and meme for sharing excerpts from your own or others’ stories about queer/LGBTQIA characters. The goal is to share six or so lines—one for each stripe on the rainbow flag. (Most rainbow flags have six stripes, but there are variations with up to nine, so participants have some leeway with the exact number.)

Here, you can find the Rainbow Snippets I’ve shared. Some are things I’ve written; others are passages I’ve loved from other authors.

You can find even more Rainbow Snippets on the Rainbow Snippets Facebook page or by looking for #rainbowsnippets and #rainbowsnippet on twitter. It’s a great way to discover new authors.

Rainbow Snippet and Book Review: Olivia Helling’s Nocturnal Lessons

Damon Snow boxed set by Olivia Helling

This week, I’m sharing from a story that isn’t mine. It’s from Nocturnal Lessons, Book 1 of Olivia Helling’s Damon Snow series about a prostitute, or “molly,” in early 19th-century London. Reader beware: The paint burned off my walls while I was reading this book. … Read more

Rainbow Snippets: Six Lines of LGBTQ+ fiction from “The Tree of Wisdom”

forest seclusion cover (1)

My contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from “The Tree of Wisdom,” a love story that appears in the new queer fairy tale anthology Forest Seclusion from Supposed Crimes Publishers. At the price of free, you can’t afford not to buy it. … Read more