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, like in my recent flash fiction story “On Vacation.” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2026/04/17/go-on-vacation-with-friday-flash-fics-from-jeff-baker-april-17-2026/

Here we meet happily married Dave and Liam driving on a Canadian highway with their kids Shane and Jax in the back seat…

“Hey, Dad,” Jax said from the back seat. “How long ‘till we get there?”

“Not as long as it was last time you asked,” Dave said from behind the wheel. “It’s worth it. I think you’ll like Montreal.”

Sitting beside him, his Husband Liam grinned and patted Dave’s leg. This was something he always looked forward to; family vacations.

“And anyway, you realize you’re quoting a cartoon I saw in a magazine once, don’t you?” Dave said with a grin.

A line or two over but here’s more after Shane and Jax’s Dads mention Pop Liam having been to the Grand Canyon…

“Grand Canyon?” Shane said, slightly awed.

“Yeah,” Dave said. “Your Pop still has pictures of that trip back home.”

“I wanna go!” Jax blurted out.

“Yeah!” Shane said.

“You know, I’ve never seen the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone,” Dave said, eyeing Liam. “But maybe in a few years, okay?”

“Maybe in a couple of years.” Liam said.

We’ll leave this family looking forward to their vacation adventures in Montreal. And I’ll mention that fifty-some years ago my family and I went to Yellowstone AND the Grand Canyon.

Someday, I’ll get to see Canada.

See you with more snippets soon. —-jeff