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It’s a holiday somewhere…

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Sorry I’m late! Last night I tried to choose a story to post from, but couldn’t decide which of my June releases it should be. So I just flipped a coin: heads = upcoming release; tails = WIP. And it came up tails (heh, heh).

f63647b4351d66d8830ed4e75f9b8be6Here’s an 8 from my holiday story, with the working title Cascades. The handsome man whose picture I gaze at whenever I need inspiration is Dino Hillas, one of the most eligible gay men in LA, if what the internet tells me is true. I can’t find a credit for the pic, so if anyone can (or wants me to take it down), please email me.

Okay, the snippet. The “I” is JB, and “she” is a gal he’s known his whole life. They’re in the small town bar where JB works, just after breakfast on a Sunday morning. JB doesn’t have a clue, but this is a set-up. Be sure and squint when you read so the creative punctuation and first-draftyness won’t give you a headache.

“JB, you need to get out of here; and I don’t mean to the men’s room at Slaughter’s for ten minutes.”

I looked up from the sink and watched as she tipped the last swallow of beer down her throat and jumped to the floor.

“Take it from someone who knows, hon, it’s not going to get any better. You should hop the train up to Vancouver instead of spending another Christmas around here with all us drunks.”

Her half grin-half grimace said she planned to spend the holidays in Upright. I should thank her for the warning; instead, I worked on emptying that tray of glasses.

“Canada’s that much better than Seattle, or are you just planning on taking my job?”

“Both.” The fact that she was able to laugh at all said things might not be as bad as her gloomy mood said they were.

 Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to check out the other snippets. If LGBT fiction is your thing, visit Seductive Studs & Sirens, for a grab-bag of great fiction visit Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday.

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A late snippet is better than no snippet?

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Hi there! If you’re looking for my Spring Fling Blog Hop post, click here. But feel free to check out my snippet before you go!

In case you’re not familiar with snippetry, I share 8 sentences of fiction on the weekends. Three fabulous groups of writers play along with me, Seductive Studs & Sirens (which I am so late for this week!), Weekend Writing Warriors, and the FB group Snippet Sunday.

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This week I’m sharing the opening 8 from a new story. It’s light on explanation because it’s still pretty new so I’m not 100% sure what the story is really about. Let me know what you think!

 

Mick crossed City Dump Road and figured he was in the right place. He’d been driving most of the night, but that wasn’t obvious by how far he’d gotten, wandering steadily north and west after leaving downtown Portland looking for a place that might pay him in cash. And a place where it wouldn’t matter if the Bug quit on him. The thing had left him stranded a time or two on the way north, but she’d been chugging away since 1972 so it wasn’t unexpected. That was one thing Mick could handle, mechanical problems. The old girl would need a lot of help to get all the way to Alaska. No reason to hurry, though. Nobody waited up there for him to pull into their driveway, nobody waited for him to call and say “I made Oregon fine, how are things up there?”

 

Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to visit my Spring Fling post, and/or hop on for more snippets!

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The Final Eight!

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Welcome to this weekend’s snippetry!

This promises to be a fun but busy weekend at Casa Des. Saturday I’ll be volunteering with a group of attorneys to help local folks with their citizenship paperwork, and Sunday is my birthday, in which I’ll be completing forms for my upcoming novel, The Nesting Habits of Strange Birds! Habitual snippeteers may remember Phil and Lee. If not, you’ll be meeting them again fairly soon. 😀

Today’s snippet is the last tease I’ll be sharing from my “Don’t Read in the Closet” story, Better Than New. The story isn’t very long, and I don’t want to give too much away.This takes up immediately after last week’s and concludes the first section. (To find all snippets for my Love’s Landscapes story, click here.)

He goaded me on, bouncing on the balls of his feet like a dancer. The chains around his neck caught the light and flashed in my eyes. I bounced the cup in the palm of my hand a few times. That seemed to make him happier, so I gathered all my disappointment, pictured it filling up the cup, and threw the cup onto the grate.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look—even the guy on the tiny stage stopped reading his excruciatingly beautiful poetry about how much it hurts to be in love. Ben raised his hand to high-five me, but I stared at the broken, useless shards scattered around the grate. He bent to put his face in front of mine, and his smile let me breathe normally again.

He ruffled my hair and turned to the counter to help a customer.

Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to check out the other snippets. If LGBT fiction is your thing, visit Seductive Studs & Sirens, for a grab-bag of great fiction visit Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday.

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The Broken Cup

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Welcome to this weekend’s snippetry!

Today’s snippet is another tease from my Don’t Read in the Closet story, Better Than New (someone guessed correctly,so I can use the title now :)) and continues where last week’s leaves off. We’re still with Theo and Ben in the coffeehouse. You can catch up here. The first line is Ben’s but all the strange punctuation is mine.

“Okay, now break it; throw it over there.” He pointed to the dip in the tiled floor where a grate covered a hole; the building used to be some kind of factory or warehouse, so the coffeehouse had all kinds of odd little details like that.

“It’ll make a mess.”

“May I direct your attention to the sign above the door—it doesn’t say The Broken Cup for nothing, whose place is this?”

“Yours.”

“So throw the cup onto the grate as hard as you can.” He pushed my shoulder gently and nodded toward the grate. “Stop thinking about it and do it.”

Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to check out the other snippets. If LGBT fiction is your thing, visit Seductive Studs & Sirens, for a grab-bag of great fiction visit Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday.

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8 more from Love’s Landscapes!

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Hey there, welcome to another snippet from my “Don’t Read in the Closet 2014” story. I’m still calling it Isn’t it Wonderful, but that’s not the real title. That has to stay secret until the lovely MM Romance Group Mods give the all-clear.

This snippet takes place immediately after last week’s. If you didn’t see that one, our hero Theo had been stood up and was contemplating breaking a coffeehouse mug in frustration. (The whole snippet is here.) Oh, and I apologize for the punctuation abuse you’re about to witness. I’ll seek professional help for that soon, promise. 😉

“If you want to break something, trade me for this one first.” Ben held out a plain white coffee cup and when I grabbed it he didn’t let go. “Come back here.”

His grin almost made me want to smile myself so I checked for coffee drips on my Vans—sometimes you just don’t want to be charmed by clear blue eyes and a friendly smile.

Ben used the white coffee cup to pull me around the end of the counter and back behind it and he sat me on the stool he keeps there for when it’s slow. Stashed under the register, his abandoned paperback splayed open like an accordion.

“Now let go of this one.”

My right arm jiggled and I looked up—my face and ears burned—I’d almost broken my favorite mug, the one Ben’s little sister had hand painted to look like a snow leopard, and just because some asshole didn’t want to date someone with only one foot, so I let Ben take it.

Thanks for reading!

Don’t forget to check out the other snippets. If LGBT fiction is your thing, visit Seductive Studs & Sirens, for a grab-bag of great fiction visit Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday.

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