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Rainbow Snippets July 15 to 16

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Hi, all! I hope you’re relaxing and having fun this weekend. 🙂

Below is a snippet from “Truck Me Back to Normal” published by MLR Press. Joey (first person) is about to start an interview and he is mentally…distracted.

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When I entered the room, I closed the door behind me and turned to face my potential employer. He was the biggest man I’d ever seen. No wonder he was called Bear.

“Joseph Choi?” the foreman asked from where he sat behind a desk on which everything was stacked in neat piles. He didn’t look up, but focused on what he was doing, his pen busily going back and forth on the sheet before him.

He reminded me a little of a few of my former commanding officers in the way he held himself. Rigid. Stern. Yummy. Now where did that thought come from?

 

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Rainbow Snippets July 8 to 9

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I love Saturdays! Don’t you? 🙂

What follows is a snippet from a work in progress, tentatively titled “Hate to Love you.” Sybren is tired and annoyed, and Rio isn’t making things easier.

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For all that he was brilliant, Rio, my regional manager, was also an arrogant fuckwit with perfect teeth and a Napoleon complex.

He was grinning at me on a Saturday evening after the coffee shop had closed. I reeked of spilled liquids and numerous lattes, and was drooping fast. Yet the asshole was still sitting here, smiling at me while fresh as a daisy in his freakishly well-starched white shirt, expensive suit, and subdued tie.

“Didn’t take your vitamins this morning, Sybil?”

“It’s Sybren, and I would thank you to remember it,” I said, growling and snappish and ready for my bed.

“I know, my dear, but it’s the only way I could think of the help you keep your eyes open. It worked, didn’t it?”

 

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Rainbow Snippets July 1 to 2

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Welcome, dear readers! I’m doing CampNano this month with the hope of getting some stories done, at last. 🙂

Here’s another snippet from my work in progress tentatively titled, The Artist’s Mechanic. Background – Dolan is the art teacher of a drawing class where Logan is posing (his baby brother blackmailed him) as a model. The students are mostly over sixty years old, and, er, a little too friendly. Longer than six sentences for context.

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Dolan’s eyes widened with pleasure when he recognized me. Grinning, he said, “Logan! I didn’t realize you worked here, man.”

I shrugged, feeling a little off-kilter. “So you need new spark plugs?”

Dolan nodded and handed over the keys. “And could you check the air filter and give me new windshield wipers, too?”

“Sure thing.” I walked around his car. He drove an older model Toyota that looked to be in good shape.

“You were a big hit with the students yesterday, by the way,” Dolan said, grinning as he stepped out of my way. “They can’t stop talking about your, um, attributes.”

“As long as none of them ask me out for a date to investigate my attributes, I’m cool,” I said with a grunt.

 

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Rainbow Snippets June 24-25

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Hi there. Hope you’re enjoying a wonderful weekend, so far. 🙂

Here is a snippet from Unexpected Journey, published by MLR Press. John (first person) and Hollis make up after an argument. They are staying in a motel.

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I grabbed my bag and walked into the bathroom, shutting the door so I wouldn’t disturb Hollis as I
showered.

Once I was cleaned up, I strode back into the room, set the bag near the TV and sat on the bed next to him. I gently
stroked his cheek with my index finger, and his eyes fluttered open. When his eyes finally focused on me, they widened before
he sat up and launched himself into my arms, squeezing me tight.

“I’m so sorry, John. I didn’t mean to hurt you or—”

I kissed his forehead which stopped him mid-sentence. He pulled back and stared at me. “Where were you all night?”

“Walking around, mostly, then when I got thirsty, I went to this gay bar and almost wished I’d worn a chastity belt, the way
they were pawing at me.”

A surprised laugh burst out of Hollis, and he pressed his head into my shoulder. “I don’t blame them. You are one hot piece of
ass, John Dornbrook.”

 

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Rainbow Snippets June 17-18

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Halloooo! I did a 5k this morning and I’m sore and a little weary, but feeling good, otherwise. 🙂

Here is a snippet from Let The Music Say I Do, one of the Wedding Bell Blues stories. It was published by JMS Books. Jared is the first person voice. It’s longer than six sentences, but it makes more sense this way.

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“Marry me,” Joey said.

“No.”

“You know you want to.” He squeezed my ass again and bit my neck.

I moaned out loud. “Jesus.”

“I prefer ‘Joey’ but that works, too. Say ‘yes,’ Jared.”

“I’ll need some convincing. How about you take me to your place and make me say ‘yes’?”

“Oh, a challenge! I love a challenge.” He moved me back a little. “You drove?”

“Nope.”

“Okay, groom-to-be, get in the car.”

“I haven’t said ‘yes’ yet.”

“You will.”

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Rainbow Snippets June 10-11

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It’s cloudy here in Atlanta, and not too warm. I love it!

Here’s another snippet from “Unexpected Journey” published by MLR Press. It follows last week’s excerpt. (John–first person)

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Hollis watched me, but I couldn’t read the expression on his face, though I had a hard enough time focusing since I was
starting to see double.

We made it back to the motel much later, Hollis practically dragging me to the room since I was unsteady on my feet, and
then he tucked me into bed.

“Wish I could do this with you every night,” I murmured, and drifted off to sleep. I thought I heard Hollis’s breath hitch, but I was soon lost to the world.

The [next] morning sun was bright. Too bright. I sat up in bed, still in my clothes from the evening before. My head was pounding and my mouth tasted nasty. I almost thought I was back in my condo in Kansas, the situation was so familiar. But then I remembered I was on a spur-of-the-moment road trip, with the sexiest, kindest man I’d ever met.

What the hell had I done last night?

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