Every Week at Rainbow Snippets https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets participants post six lines of a work of theirs, a work-in-progress or a work by someone else that has LGBT characters. My snippets this week come from “Selected Shorts,” Cait Gordon’s fine anthology of disability-friendly LGBT-flavored sci-fi and fantasy. Here’s a bit from maybe my favorite of the stories “Ranger Of the Sea.”

When a Mermaid suddenly finds a blind sailor all but dropped in her lap, what’s a girl to do?

The human jumped and turned his head to the right and left. “Who’s there? Are you the one I seek?”

Abigail paused, then swam closer to set herself on the shore.

“I am here,” she signed.

There was no response at first.

“Who is there?” he repeated, tilting his head toward the sound of her tail flapping against the wet sand.

Wet, I mean whet your appetite for more? Here’s a link to Cait Gordon’s fine book. https://books2read.com/spec-shorts

See you folks next time.

—-jeff