November 8, 2026
Every week at Rainbow Snippets [LINK] 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 which has LGBT characters.
My snippets this week again are some shameless self-promo for “Sidetracked.” A serial novel I’m writing as by “Mike Mayak” that will post every Friday on this blog beginning January 1st, 2027.
James Arvad has accidentally passed through a gateway to a parallel Earth where civilization about came to an end. Here, James is talking to Eddie, whose family has taken James in. And they are getting closer…
“Just don’t tell anybody,” Eddie said looking a little scared. “I think I like you. I mean…”
“Yeah, I know.” James said. “I caught you looking at me a couple of times, like, well…”
It hit James that this world had missed out on the whole movement. Harvey Milk, Gay Rights, Pride Month. Those things weren’t a part of this world which may have gone into a stall about 1938.
“Look, James said. “I don’t know what you’ve heard about this stuff…”
Here’s another snippet
“Look, James said. “I don’t know what you’ve heard about this stuff…”
“Really nothing.” Eddie said.
“I mean, guys liking guys.” James said. “But there’s nothing wrong with that. There are a lot of us in my world.”
Eddie smiled. “Us?” he asked.
“Yeah. Us.” James said. “I’m, well, what they call Bi. Bisexual.”
“Huh?” Eddie asked.
“It means I like guys and girls.” James said. “But not as much as I like you.”
I’ll post more snippets of “Sidetracked” here in the coming weeks. Don’t forget to check the story out when it starts posting here January 1st, 2027 and every Friday until it’s finished.
Thanks for reading!
—jeff, aka mike
