Rainbow Snippets: Secret Kisses

Happy Saturday! Gonna be a gorgeous weekend. My family is spending it out at a local amusement park.

I had a new release this week: “Year of the Guilty Soul,” a novella-length YA story that’s included in the Seasons of Love anthology from Beaten Track. You can read about the other stories in my blog post about it.

Here’s the blurb from mine:

Antonia Moskowitz is caught in the middle, always having to pick a side. Whether it’s between her family’s two religions or in her relationships, she has choices to make. But learning who she is has a price, and every decision has consequences. Sometimes it’s hard to choose between being good and being right. Four seasons. Four kisses. One year to figure out what her heart wants.

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And here is this week’s snippet:

I finish licking the orange cheese powder off my fingers. Hannah is giggling madly at a penis joke on the show like it’s the first time she’s ever heard one. Maybe it is, given what she said earlier. She rolls toward me and starts to ask what I think, but I’m too close, and she bashes her nose into my cheek. It only makes her laugh harder.

I’m laughing too, and then, out of the blue, she kisses me. Or I kiss her. It’s hard to tell because I think we both went for it at the same time. It’s sticky from the Cheetos, and neither of us knows what we’re doing. We don’t go any farther, which makes it awkward—we stop in the middle of it, and we both back away.

Rainbow Snippets is a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQIA+ authors, readers, and bloggers to share 6 sentences each week from a work of fiction—published or in-progress—or a book recommendation. Feel free to join in!