Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, bloggers, and readers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).   Check out all the other awesome snippets by clicking on the picture above.

(Apologies for any language usage that’s anachronistic. I’ll deal with that once the first draft is done.)

This picks up from last week.

I held the envelope out to her and she pulled off her gloves and reached out with a delicate hand to take it from me.

I saw a faint flicker of surprise as she saw the insignia pressed into the wax, then she popped it open and pulled out the letter.

“It says you’re a carpenter?”

“Yes, ma’am. Me da was a carpenter and he taught me a bit and left me his tools. Most I’ve learned on me own, though.” For some reason I felt compelled to be completely honest with her.

She nodded and studied the letter again and I waited, trying not to let on how nervous I was. I wanted this job so bad I could taste it, but letting that show might just bollix up my chances, might make her think I’m nervous because I’ve got something to hide.

She looked up from the letter and began studying me and I wished she’d go back to studying the letter. On the other hand, her assessment was much different than the other woman’s. The other woman – Cecily – she’d been making a judgment based on my appearance, but this woman, she seemed to be making a judgment based on something else entirely.

Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, bloggers, and readers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).   Check out all the other awesome snippets by clicking on the picture above.

(Apologies for any language usage that’s anachronistic. I’ll deal with that once the first draft is done.)

This picks up from last week.

It suddenly occurred to me that I was a stranger entering private property with no proper introduction, and that I looked a bit rough and bedraggled.

“The woman that was just leaving told me to see myself in,” I said, holding my empty hands out to my sides to show that I was no threat. “I’ve come about the job posting.”

A quick nod was my answer and the soldering iron was laid aside and a gloved hand pushed the goggles up over the scarf.

“Cecily left?”

I nodded, my tongue suddenly tied in a knot – or twelve. The bloke in front of me was no bloke.

“So, how may I help you?”

“I – I’m looking for V.R. Madison.” I fumbled the letter of reference out from inside my coat, relieved that it was still dry.

“I’m V.R. Madison.”

“I’m Daniel McKelvy. I’ve come about the position advertised in today’s paper.”

I held the envelope out to her and she pulled off her gloves and reached out with a delicate hand to take it from me.

(I just have to say that I’ve been laughing for weeks at you all thinking that V.R. Madison was a man.)

Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, bloggers, and readers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).   Check out all the other awesome snippets by clicking on the picture above.

I’m gearing up for NaNoWriMo next month and have almost definitely decided that I will most likely probably be working on my “Steampunk thing.”  So, since I’m looking over what I have written of it (less than 2000 words) I thought I’d post bits from it to help me stay focused on it.

(Apologies for any language usage that’s anachronistic. I’ll deal with that once the first draft is done.)

This picks up from last week.

Tearing my gaze away from the future airship, I searched the room for the person I had come to see – or any person for that matter, for the room seemed empty aside from the construct.

A figure swung down from the scaffolding at the stern of the ship and I got my first look at what I hoped would be my future employer: small, slight build, wearing a tan boiler suit and a head scarf and carrying a soldering iron in one hand, the tip still glowing. I couldn’t get a proper look at his face as most of it was covered by goggles, but what I could see was smooth skin and a delicate chin and jaw.

Now, first let me say that I like the ladies, but I like the gents too, perhaps a fair bit more than I do the ladies. And I like the fine boned gents, like the way they feel in my arms and against my body, all delicate but strong too, and what I’d seen so far of V.R. Madison was making my body think things it shouldn’t think about an employer, potential or otherwise.

Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, bloggers, and readers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).   Check out all the other awesome snippets by clicking on the picture above.

I’m gearing up for NaNoWriMo next month and have almost definitely decided that I will most likely probably be working on my “Steampunk thing.”  So, since I’m looking over what I have written of it (less than 2000 words) I thought I’d post bits from it to help me stay focused on it.

(Apologies for any language usage that’s anachronistic. I’ll deal with that once the first draft is done.)

This picks up from last week.

It felt good to be out of the rain and into someplace warm, so I spent a moment looking around, not that there was much to see. It was a small room, not much in it but a desk and chair, but it was well lit from numerous lamps, and a small fire glowed in the fireplace.

Taking a deep breath and strengthening my resolve, I knocked on the door the departing woman had pointed to and then opened it and stepped into the warehouse.

I knew from the outside that the building was large, taking up the entire block, but the vastness of the space didn’t really hit me until I was inside, my attention riveted on the scaffolding in the center of the room.  The scaffolding supported a ship and I briefly wondered how it had been moved here from the water or if it had been built here, but then my gaze drifted upward and my breath caught at the sight of the great dirigible hanging above it.