Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work-in-progress or published or a recommendation of someone else’s work with at least one LGBT character. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974

I love anthologies! Especially YA anthologies! This snippet is from Wednesday Books’ new YA anthology “Night of the Living Queers.” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61775756-night-of-the-living-queers the book’s theme is LGBT People Of Color (writers as well as characters) set on a Halloween Night with not only a Full Moon but a Blue Moon! (Yes, the second Full Moon of a month on the 31^st will always be a Blue Moon.) Of course, very strange things happen on this Halloween with stories running the gamut from comedic to affirming to tragic.

My snippet is from Kalynn Bayron’s story “The Visitor.” I love this description of the anticipation of Halloween. It reminds me of my Grade School days. Of course, Toya has other reasons to want that night to get here…

All day I counted down in hours. Big chunks of time seemed to go by quickly when I kept track that way. But in the afternoon I switched to increments of thirty minutes, then fifteen. The anticipation grew as the moments passed…By the time the sun tucked itself behind the horizon and the clock lurched past the 8:30 P.M. mark on Halloween night, time felt like it wasn’t moving at all. I looked at my phone for the hundredth time that day.

Yeah, a flashback to October nights around 1969 for me!

Next week, something else from this cool anthology, something a little goofy! —-jeff