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.
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
Excerpt from Sucker for Love, a love story between two men told through three acts of oral intimacy. The narrator is Marcus, the child of a British and a German ex-pat living in the United States, and this scene takes place in college (that’s “university” to my UK friends), after Marcus develops a crush on the captain of his rowing team.. … Read more
Today is the release day of the multi-author anthology Sexy to Go Gay Romance, which includes “Loggerhead,” my short story about a gay couple who finally get the honeymoon they never had. So that’s where my contribution this week to the Rainbow Snippets meme comes from: Soon we were out on the empty beach, treading the … Read more