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.
This week’s sentences, again, come from my short story Kiss Me Kade, which is to be part of 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 15k 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.
“What the hell am I doing?” he whispered as he crouched behind an industrial bin. Hiding in an alley? Really? What exactly was he hiding from? Sure, Pete was a pain, and his harassment was frustrating and relentless, but was it worth this? Hiding behind a bin in the pouring rain among the trash and cat pee? A familiar voice in his head whispered this is where you belong. Trash among trash.
To anyone who is able to count, I have to apologize as there are more than six sentences but the last two are the most important – as you will see when you read the anthology.
If anyone is interested in joining the project please pm Rian. The submission deadline is May so you have time
See, this is the part where my heart started aching because I knew you won’t be going easy on poor little Kade.
Do I ever 🙂 If you read one of my stories without pain and suffering it probably wasn’t written by me 🙂 I have tried. Honestly I have. I have deliberately set out to write a lighter story with no darkness and it’s just crept in unnoticed and stole the story from under my nose 😀
It’s your thing and the way you carry the darkness out is yet another proof that we should write what moves us instead of answering to popular demand. 🙂
I can’t wait to read the full story, this was an intriguing snippet.
Thank you. It’s a hint of things to come.
I’m curious as to why he’s hiding, but those last lines are really intense.
Ah, that would be because of Pete. It ties in with the snippet from last week when Pete was harassing him
The more snippets I read, the more i want to read the whole story, and learn why he would think he was trash that deserved to be among the trash.
Thank you. You’ll have to wait a while for the whole story I’m afraid. But trust me there is a very good reason for the way he feels. Not that he’s in any way right about it.
Looking forward to this story and the anthology!
Thank you. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the stories. I love Shakespeare
Break my heart, why don’t you? “A familiar voice in his head whispered this is where you belong. Trash among trash.” Poor guy.
He’s not having a good time at the moment. There is a lot going on in Kade’s life and all he wnats to do is hide his head in a book and forget it. Then this pushy guy comes along and pushes him way past his comfort level and the next thing he knows he’s hiding behind a bin – and that’s not the worst. I do love torturing my boys so much. Fortunately, Shakespeare gives me such great material to work with
Poor guy having to hide out. This is an interesting set up for their relationship.
I can’t take credit for that – the set up for their relationship I mean rather than the means by which it is set up. In fact, I have to pull it back a little as what Shakespeare has Petruccio do is illegal on more than one ground, not to mention evil and distasteful. I didn’t want my Pete to be totally hated.
Hope it’s worth his current hiding place.
Wonder what he’s hiding from. And why does he think of himself as ‘trash’? Very interesting scene…
Thank you. I don’t think it’s giving away too much to tell you he’s hiding from Pete, the guy who was harassing him in the last snippet. As for why he thinks of himself as trash – well that’s one secret I’m not going to give away