Rainbow Snippets is a facebook group where members post six sentences of a LGBT work, their own or in promotion of someone else, together with a link to the group page. The link to this post is then posted on the group page.
The idea is that readers go to the thread and sample the work of multiple authors then have the opportunity to open discussions with the authors either on their post or generally.
Personally, I am the most interested in discussions with those who have, or who are interested in reading my work, and there is plenty of it out there free here, on my blog or on http://www.gayauthors.org/index.html I love to talk to people and would like to think I’m approachable enough for anyone to talk to me. I’d be upset to think I wasn’t.
This week’s sentences come from a WIP, Kiss Me Kade, which is a short story for an anthology to be put together later this year by the inimitable Miss Rian Duran. I believe there are still opportunities to join the project if anyone is interested.
The project is to write a story between 3k and 8k based (no matter how loosely) on a Shakespeare play. The stories will be edited by Petra Howard from Dragonsfly Edits then collated into an anthology. All proceeds from the anthology will go to It Gets Better Project a charity for troubled LGBT youth.
My story is based on the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew and the title comes from the 1953 film Kiss me Kate with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, which was also based on the play.
A very very brief summary of the play is that Lucentio wants to marry Beatrice but her father won’t let her marry unless her older sister Kathryn (Kate) is married first. Lucentio enlists the aid of his friend Petruchio to marry Kate and leave the field free to Lucentio to woo Beatrice. Kate is headstrong and willful and Petruchio resorts to tough measures including withholding sleep and food for days and basically brainwashing in order to ‘tame’ Kate and make her totally submissive. Yeah, lovely guy! My Pete isn’t quite so bad – not quite.
Kade met Pete’s eyes and, again, electricity sparked between them. Panic surged through him and he started to struggle again. No way. No way was he submitting to Pete or to anyone else. “Let me go. Just let me go.” The panic brought a different dimension to the struggle and he lost control, clawing at Pete, kicking him, anything to get away, to get free.
If anyone is interested in joining the project please pm Rian. The submission deadline is May so you have time
oh, I love Shakespeare. I’ll have to keep an eye open for this one.
Thank you. So far, it looks like it’s going to be a good one. There some brilliant writers on board
Aww, go on, Kade, give him a kiss. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the story.
Haha. Pete’s got a way to go before he bullies his first kiss out of Kade, and much further before he gets a real one.
Your Pete is not half as bad, actually. They are such sweethearts, both of them 😉
Thank you very much for everything you are doing for the project, Cheryl! <3
Pete’s a complete prick, at least at the beginning. I wouldn’t have had the patience Kade does and would have been physically violent before the end 🙂
I really believe in the project, and the charity it’s going to help. I’ll do whatever I can to help.
Aww poor panicking Kade. I l iked the scene and the project sounds great. Good luck with it.
No wonder Kade is panicking. Pete is a complete ass at this point.
Nice intensity; love the panic reaction. I hope you’ll post more of this.
Thank you. I will definitely post more snippets from this work
Poor Kade! Great scene, though 🙂
Thank you. Kade goes through a pretty hard time at Pete’s hand, but it’s still nothing to what poor Kate went through in the play.
What a wonderful project!! Poor Kade though, you show his panic and fear wonderfully.
Thank you. It is a wonderful project and I can’t wait to read the other stories. Kade is going through a bad time, and Pete is an ass
Definitely like the project–and the snippet. I love the chemistry and the instant reaction to it. I can’t wait to see more!
Thank you. I will be posting more snippets from the story, but as it’s only 8000 words. I won’t be able to do too many 😀
Great tension, I can feel his panic 🙂
Thank you. Poor Kade, Pete is relentless and behaves like a complete ass. Rather like Petruchio one might think 😀
I think Pete better let him go! Poor Kade. This story sounds really interesting!