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

My snippets this week come from an anthology that is literally just out. “Love And Hope” is a charity anthology with all proceeds going to the writer H. M. Wolfe who is ailing. 26 M/M authors donated stories “filled with love and hope.” https://www.amazon.com/Love-Hope-Anthology-H-M-Wolfe-ebook/dp/B0CQLF41ZT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2M4LF9AL8PIBY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._Pq4KqeE99YYL3Ld_Ej_WABTEmCTrFUGx8EeVIj-xgQFQUZ9Sfs4jHkUItEfURi-jcAmqTX4l7IvYw0dshMSCDCt_ZI7ctnho7SIbVhGV2N5VCoS-5WUb24bwdCBTx5vi5gLop7bSvz3PXTDpuYifDy56OOv-1Kjxveb3XyBlHWLxbvqUHeX0BA4GTEzwJ_7bD6Zfo_ov_a8vi6Pdkl6hyEe5_EW44aa1h3zi6HjJFA.kxEulxNkBW7bcTSgsR5rxT_LOWbk1RfKvNYs0yWI5wI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Love+And+Hope&qid=1708223721&s=books&sprefix=love+and+hope%2Cstripbooks%2C290&sr=1-1

In Kaje Harper’s story “Toby, Doyle and the Cats,” two guys who are attracted to each other open up when one of them discovers three abandoned, scrawny kittens that need care.

Did I mention that Toby and Doyle are part of a pack of werewolves?

I stepped closer and peered down at them. “Shouldn’t they be fatter? Other than their bellies?” Kitten photos online showed rounded little fuzzballs.

“Yeah. He sighed again.

Here’s just a little more:

My wolf rose up in me, sniffing around, noting a packmate in distress. I shoved him back down. The last thing I needed was my wolf getting involved.

I was already way too obsessed with Toby. I’d lived all of my forty-five years in this pack, pup and man, hunkered down, quiet, moving up in the ranks and not standing out for anything except my swift fangs and my ability to think outside the box. Then, three months after word came down from the Council to tolerate and protect our gay wolves instead of killing them, there was Toby.

Here’s a link to Kaje’s own site https://www.kajeharper.com/ where you can read more of her “Hidden Wolves” series. I can recommend them as well as the stories in (and the cause behind!) “Love And Hope.”

Next week, a little more romance. —–jeff