Rainbow Snippets*-- 'Tis The Season To Be Busy

The last week has been hectic, and this last push towards Christmas is going to be doubly so. 'Tis the season! Every spare moment has been spent baking and icing cookies for my home business, alongside extra hours at the grocery store. Plus, I fit in a surprise visit with my sister-in-law, who had some unexpected days off and flew in to see us. This next week will be full of more cookies, more store hours, and picking up my daughter, who is coming for Christmas. (I'm excited!)

I'm snipping from Cut Shot, a book I wrote several years ago. It's in the queue for editing and everything that goes with getting it ready to publish, so hopefully, it'll go live in the not too distant future. It really is probably my favorite of the books I've written.

Ian has spent Christmas day with his family when he gets a text from Jed, the man he's been secretly seeing. Jed isn't out to his family, hence the reason their relationship is a secret. 

Can you get away? 

Ian read the text and glanced around the kitchen at the last few relatives still lingering after the huge holiday dinner. There was his aunt Cora and her teen daughters, plus a couple of cousins that had come for Georgia’s wedding and stayed to celebrate Christmas. He’d sat with their husbands earlier in the living room, where they’d gathered in front of the flatscreen to watch football. He had little in common with any of them and eventually meandered back into the kitchen to listen to the women cackle about their husbands. Some of the stories were funny, but if anything, he wondered why women ever got married. 

Definitely he texted back. Meet where?

*Rainbow Snippets is a (Facebook) group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers who gather once a week to share snippets from a work of fiction–-a WIP or a finished work or even a book recommendation. If you're interested in following a diverse group of authors, check it out here.