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 the fine writer ‘Nathan Burgoine whose latest release, “Triad Magic” https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/the-triad-books-and-stories-and-the-way-it-has-always-been/ is the third (appropriately!) book in a series that began with “Triad Blood” and continued with “Triad Soul.” Anders, Luc and Curtis; a demon, vampire and wizard who have bucked tradition and formed a triad from the three disparate groups. The trio find danger, excitement and mystery in a very-well drawn magical version of Ottawa, Canada and its environs.

In our snippets, Anders and Curtis are questioning Taryne after their friend Aaron, a werewolf, was killed. But Aaron could see the future so he should have known…

But then Anders frowned, because something massive wasn’t adding up here.

“Wait,” he said and all eyes turned to him. “So you’ve got this guy who can see into the future, but he’s kind of not in control of it, fine. And you’ve got the Stirling kid, who can also see the future and is damn good at it. Stirling comes here to help this guy fix his antenna or whatever.” Anders waved a hand. “So they’re both here, working on seeing the future together.”

Taryne frowned. “More or less.”

Little more than six lines, but here’s more.

“Then somebody f**ked up.” Anders shook his head. “Because neither of them saw this coming.”

“Anders,” Curtis said, annoyed, but Anders held up a hand to cut off whatever bulls**t “don’t be mean” speech was coming.

“No,” Jace said, pushing off from the wall. “No, he’s right. Matt always knows when there’s trouble.”

“Oh,” Curtis blinked. “Like at the bar.”

Okay, I should have done three snippets maybe, in keeping with the triad theme!

Next week, more from someone else who isn’t me! Till then—–jeff b.