Rainbow Snippets: Holiday Fun

Happy Saturday! I haven’t done one of these in a while. Life has been incredibly busy for the last month. This is probably the last one I’ll do this year.

Since it’s almost Christmas (yes, I’m counting 10 days as almost), I thought I’d share from some of my holiday-themed short stories in (S)no(w) Angels. These were written at various times and collected later. All but one feature LGBTQ+ characters. Some are set with the same people and places as previous novels. Here’s the blurb:

A set of holiday-themed short fiction. Phin’s home sick, but Alex will take good care of him; Jeanine is about to deliver something more than red shoes to the boy who keeps asking for them; Santa’s son is in love with his sexy best friend, Elf Robin, and is trying to find a way to tell him; best friends, lovers, and co-teachers at a dance studio, Elinor and Giovanna enjoy their ballet with a side of spanking; eleven-year-old Cat wants to be Mary in his church’s Christmas play, but not everyone thinks that’s a good idea; Zayne wonders which part of her life will cause Pam to decide she’s better off looking for someone with fewer issues.

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This story is from one titled “Pas de Deux.” It was written for a challenge with the prompts Christmas, ballet, wooden spoon, and spanking (yes, really).

I slip out the door to peek in the next room.

Elinor is doing what I should be—working out some choreography for her solo dance in the winter charity performance. I pause with my hand on the doorknob, mesmerized by her movement. She isn’t like me, all her height in her legs. She’s compact and muscular, a powerhouse built perfectly for the energetic jazz dance she loves. I can just barely hear the thump of her feet and the pounding backbeat of the music filtered by the soundproofing we’ve done to the rooms.

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!