Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets here https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets My in-progress story “Diego’s Offer” (as by “Skip Hanford”) is being written for an erotica site and takes place in a dystopian world of the near-future.

We were sitting there at the table outside the coffee shop near the spaceport, basking in the sun and I was admiring how the sunlight enhanced Diego’s tan and his muscular arms. He caught me glancing at him and grinned. He reached up and rubbed the name “Diego” tattooed in cursive on his left bicep. It wasn’t his name any more than he was Spanish but he didn’t have a lot of choice on the tattoo.

I’d gone to school with him back when he wasn’t called Diego. In his early 20s he’d been picked up for a string of burglaries and had been sentenced to a “Servitude Work Crew with Option to Sell.”

Okay, here’s more snippet as steam begins to rise…

After his two and a half years on the prison farm he’d been tattooed and auctioned off. I’d run into him again when his owner worked near where I did downtown. I ran a shop, Diego did heavy lifting at a warehouse. We were lucky he got a lunch break now and then.

He reached over and scratched his right biceps and forearm, where the bands of servitude had been tattooed as if they itched. I knew better; he was preening and looking macho for my benefit.

Kinky! And makes you wonder who’s in charge doesn’t it?

Next week, something less kinky and more nostalgic.