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/963484217054974

I didn’t know what a “Hi/Lo” was until I read one to review it. Alison Lister’s “No Limit On Love” is what is called a “hi/lo,” meaning it is a “hi interest, low reading complexity book” meant mainly for young readers who do not have a high reading level for one reason or another. None of the book comes off as simplified or simplistic in either its prose or its tone. I found it charming. In this snippet, High Schoolers Dan and Levi meet when they are the only ones to show up for a clean-up after the derecho storm that hit Ottawa. Both of them qualify as non-binary. Here’s a link to the book which comes out in the U. S. later this year. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1459417178/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1459417178&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2

And here’s the snippet.

THE GUY SMILED AT ME as I approached.

“Hi. Are you here to help with the clean-up?”

That smile. Man.

I nodded, hoping my voice wouldn’t warble. “Yeah.”

He held out his hand. “I’m Levi.”

I grinned and took it, shaking it firmly. “Dan. Short for Danielle, but we won’t talk about that.” My name sounded strange to my ears, and I Levi 26 wondered why I hadn’t formally given it up. From what I’d heard, it was a simple process to change it on the school lists.

A little more than six lines, but after that long introduction, why not? See you next week as we explore another author’s collection. —-jeff