Rainbow Snippets*–Time Flies

 This month has flown by so quickly! It always seems to go that way when there are deadlines, whether they are outside deadlines or the ones I impose on myself. This month has been a little of both, which makes it twice as bad! 

Everything is budding out and there is color everywhere. I love Spring!

This week's snippet is taken from Smoke and Sparks. Vaughn is a college student who works in a coffee shop close to campus. He's having a rough time of it, but things aren't completely bleak:

My thoughts were interrupted when my next customer asked for a large black coffee. My mind went blank. Large. Black. Coffee. No extra shot of anything, no request for some kind of milk that wasn’t milk. Just coffee. Black. Pour it in a cup and put on the lid. Much too simple. I couldn’t remember the last time someone had ordered a regular coffee, and I felt as if I was forgetting something as I poured it. I laughed in sheer delight after she left, cup in hand and phone to her ear. She’d been the last in line, forced to wait as we fixed a dozen complicated orders, and yet she didn’t complain once. Maybe my day was looking up.

Smoke and Sparks–Campfire Stories Book 2 on preorder now!

Couch-surfing is fine for the short term, but what Vaughn really needs is a roommate.

Vaughn’s future was mapped out: Attend college in St. Louis. Become a Physical Therapist. Come out to his ultra-religious family-- after he’s financially stable and probably 40-years-old. But that was before he got caught with the pool-boy. Now he has to make new plans, quickly.

A small-town mechanic from Indiana, Daryl has never met anyone like Vaughn. He’s instantly fascinated by the tall college student in the skinny jeans and open-backed shirt. Vaughn is funny, intelligent—and wears silk underwear. Daryl is instantly smitten.

A temporary job offer moves Daryl to the city and solves Vaughn’s roommate problem. But while their former long-distance friendship has the potential to turn into something more, Vaughn fears he’ll end up heartbroken when Daryl moves back to Indiana. The spark between them glows brighter, but will it be smothered before it has a chance to truly ignite? 

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*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.