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

These snippets are from an early Flash Fics story “Atmosphere” from 2018, and I posted another snippet from it a couple of years ago. We meet Bryan and Nico as they are making out on a comfy blanket on the ground…I actually wrote a sequel about the characters and If I ever get motivated there could be a longer story in it somewhere! https://authorjeffbaker.com/2016/08/28/monday-flash-fic-for-august-29-2016-atmosphere/

“You know, I don’t even remember how this weekend started,” Nico said. “I don’t even know how I could afford to come to a place like this.”

“I remember,” Bryan said. “The acclimation thing didn’t work on me all the way. Sometimes it doesn’t.”

Nico sat up on his elbows.

“Wait, what ‘acclimation thing?’”

“Programming,” Bryan said. “They hooked you up to an, an encephalitic mind thingie. Programmed you,” he said flatly. “Me too.”

A little long, but here’s more snippets:

“We’re supposed to believe that this is really us, that this is how we really feel. It’s the programming. We were programmed to fall in love and get romantic and physical and, and, oh, God you have nice legs!”

Bryan started rubbing Nico’s leg, and playfully stuck a thumb under Nico’s shorts.

Okay, one more snippet…

“But who did this to us?” Nico asked. “Who messed with our minds and our emotions and played with us like we’re, we’re…”

“You did!” Bryan said. “We both signed up for this. We were hired,” Bryan said, nuzzling Nico’s neck. “People pay a lot to come to this romantic resort. We’re hired to add atmosphere. They pay us pretty well. But we always stop just short of, well, doing what the customers do when they get back to their rooms.”

Well! That was interesting! Click on the link “Atmosphere” at the bottom of the original story to read the sequel. Next week, our snippets open a door that had been sealed…

And on that mysterious note…——–jeff