I’ve joined the Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook. From their description: “Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).” Pretty cool, eh? Don’t forget to “Like” my Facebook page and/or my Facebook profile while you’re over there checking out this fantastic group!
This week I’m once again snipping from Of Rats and Cats, a comedic short story that’ll be coming out at JMS Books sometime in November (tentatively on the 10th).
Blurb (tentative):
All he wanted to do was retrieve his newspaper, but Raymond is panic-stricken when a rat dashes through his open apartment door. No worries, though. Pandy is on the job! Except Kevin doesn’t want Raymond’s cat to eat his beloved pet…mouse.
Can Kevin rescue Corky before Pandy gets to her? Will Raymond’s upturned box of…um… personal toys and videos drive Kevin away, or will the pile of filigree undies Corky has burrowed into turn Kevin on?
No context needed, this is the opening scene. Note, the story is unedited at this time, so everything is subject to change. For an easy refresher of previous posts in this thread, toggle open the spoiler tag, below.
Told from Raymond’s 3rd-person POV:
This week’s snippet:
Raymond dropped a couple biscuit slabs of Shredded Wheat into a bowl and scattered a handful of blueberries atop it. He’d wait until his green tea was ready before he poured the milk.
Even this early, his copy of the Sunday edition of the Kansas City Star should be waiting in the hallway, so he opened his studio apartment door. Another door down the hall, the same from which movers had shuffled in and out the previous day, creaked open.
As he lifted the newspaper, a white blur ran across—across!—his slippers. Raymond produced a high-pitched yelp that would have sent Leon’s eyes rolling all the way back in his head before he could stop himself.
Of Rats and Cats is a short story, meet-cute, detailing the humorous get-together of two otherwise regular guys, leading average lives. The story ends with a solid happy-for-now where we are left to imagine them continuing their relationship as they traipse, without further issue, toward their eventual HEA.
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This made me chuckle – I could imagine him shrieking about the scampering over his slippers 🙂
Thank you! 💖
Even if you’re expecting to see a rodent dashing about it still startles you. (I used to have pet rats.)
True! ❤️
LOL! Blurs like that can be startling!
Too true! 💖😁
Hehe
😁
Ha! Love the high pitched yelp – bless! 😀
Thank you! 🙂
That’d send me through the roof! I’d let out the same noise 🙂
Me too! 😘
Awwww, I can’t wait for this one!! 🙂
Thank you! 💕
I’d make the same noise!
So would I! ❤️