Rainbow Snippets, December 8 – 9, 2018

In the Rainbow Snippets Facebook group, readers, writers, and bloggers share short (six sentences or so) snippets of their LGBTQIA+ fiction or book recs each weekend. This week, my snippet is from my Dreamspinner Advent Calendar novella, An Everyday Hero. Adam, a recent Phoenix transplant, was confronted by a scorpion in his new house, and is awaiting the arrival of the exterminator while knee deep in his swimming pool.

Adam’s shivering had kicked up a notch, even though the sun was almost directly overhead. He crept over and climbed to the top step. This is stupid. You’ll have to get out of the pool to let the Luddite in anyway.

He bent down and peered at the concrete around the pool and hot tub. He didn’t see anything moving. Are scorpions related to chameleons? Maybe they’re cunning, like their velociraptor ancestors. Maybe they hunt in packs.

He could look it up on his phone, but he was afraid of what he’d learn.

When he heard the distant chime of his doorbell, a weird mix of relief and trepidation washed through him. Rescue was at hand! But first he had to make the trip through Mordor to open the door.

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