New Love

Happy Saturday! As of tomorrow, I’m officially on vacation for a week! That means I get to do absolutely no work. I’ll be going through my reading list and enjoying some new purchases in between hanging out with my kids, spouse, and his family. Going to be fantastic!

Today’s snippet is still from Nightsong. I figure I’ll post this and maybe one more before retiring it. I have a new collection of short stories coming out July 12, Leaps of Faith, which you can pre-order here. I’ll snip from that in the coming weeks.

Last week, Nate (aka the “gorgeous baritone”) showed up for his part in a charity performance. Izzy, who is currently in his drag persona, TaTa Latke, is about to meet him. They’ve both been fan-crushing on each other without knowing it. This is in Izzy’s POV.

Baritone turned toward him, and his mouth fell open. He closed it, opened it again, and then stood there. He finally shook himself and said, “You-you’re TaTa Latke. Oh, my god.”

It was Izzy’s turn to gape like a fish. The man he’d been thinking of as “his” baritone looked a bit awestruck himself. Izzy scrambled to recover. “Yes, that’s me. And you are…?”

“Nate Kingsley. Oh, my god,” he repeated. “I can’t believe I’m standing here talking to you.”

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Happy Saturday! It’s officially summer vacation. Yay! I had my moment of sentimentality at my older child finishing middle school. I can hardly believe I’ll have a high schooler in the fall. He’ll be at the same building (it’s grades 6-12), but there’s still something about it that feels like a big deal.

Today’s snippet is still from Nightsong, but I think I’ve teased everyone enough. Time for Izzy and Nate to meet. Well, sort of—this is the setup. They’re both performing in a fundraiser at their favorite LGBTQ+ bar, Grand Slam. Izzy’s a drag queen, and this is in his POV. The others mentioned here are: Brunhilde the Great (the emcee), Nate (the “gorgeous baritone”), and his roommates, Jamie (the “tiny wisp”) and Mack (“a lot of tattoos”).

There was a bit of fumbling and several exchanges of “excuse me” in the doorway while Brunhilde exited and three other people came in. Izzy sucked in a breath when he saw them. One was the gorgeous baritone he’d seen the last time he performed as TaTa. Up close, the man appeared considerably younger than Izzy had thought when watching him from the stage. The second was a tiny wisp of a man so attractive it almost set Izzy’s teeth on edge. He wasn’t really Izzy’s type, but he had the polished shine of someone who could have been paid for his good looks. Behind them traipsed a third man with dark hair and a lot of tattoos.

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!