Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work in progress or part of someone else’s work with LGBT characters at Rainbow Snippets, here https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974

For Pride Month I’m posting snippets from “Office Of the Lost,” a fun new novel written by my friends J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding. https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/book/office-of-the-lost/ We find Desk Fae Crispin and Leopold Lane in another world having, uh, leaped away from a Lovecraftian thing that materialized in Leopold’s apartment. Leopold isn’t used to things like that or to being called “Leo.”

“What was that thing?” The cloud thing, with the teeth?” Leo was staring at Crispin as if he would somehow know, his earlier hostility apparently forgotten.

“You were mad at me just two minutes ago–”

“Sorry about that. My blood sugar’s a bit low. I get a little…” and he wobbled his hand in a way that reminded Crispin of a three-footed sploot.

“Um…splooty?”

Here’s a bit more…

“Crispin scratched his head. “I have no idea. It looks a bit like the things that chased us out of your…” He’d been about to say “garbage pit,” but that didn’t sound politic. “Um…your flat. But what they are, where they came from, what they want” —could an ethereal being truly want anything? “I haven’t a clue.”

More snippets for Pride Month next week. See you then! —–jeff