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Rainbow Snippet February 11-12

2/11/2017

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It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your tbr. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ+.

I'm continuing my first kisses theme this week with Etan and Tristan in The Scholar's Heart. I went a couple sentences over with this one (sorry!), but I thought it was necessary.
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​Against all of his better judgment, which was screaming at him unheeded from some small part of his mind, he grabbed Tristan, pulled him close, and kissed him. 

The kiss was rough—passionate but rough and almost violent. All lips and teeth and grasping hands. Not at all how Etan usually kissed or liked to be kissed. Not at all how he’d envisioned a first kiss with Tristan to be, back when he’d imagined such things, before he put aside the possibility of anything between them. A shame, since this kiss was likely to be their only one. But he couldn’t change it now. All his anger and frustration, his thwarted passion and hurt, every feeling that had accumulated over years of loving Tristan and grieving what might have been, was being poured out into the kiss, and Etan was helpless to stop it. 

Tristan froze in his arms.

You can find more about The Scholar's Heart here. Also, Dreamspinner is having a paperback sale, so the paperbacks of The Scholar's Heart and the other Tournai books are all 25% off this week. Thanks for stopping by and reading!
9 Comments
Debbie McGowan link
2/11/2017 08:33:16 am

Uh oh. That is not at all how one envisages a kiss being received.

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Heloise West
2/11/2017 10:12:54 am

So sad to want someone so much and for so long.

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Jana Denarado
2/11/2017 12:33:16 pm

How sad this first kiss didn't go as he would have hoped.

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Anne Barwell link
2/11/2017 01:20:29 pm

Wow. So much emotion in that one kiss. And so much pain. I hope they do get more than this one.

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Addison Albright link
2/11/2017 03:37:52 pm

Poor frustrated guys!

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K.S. Trenten link
2/11/2017 06:22:39 pm

Wow, all that passion! (fans self) Tristan, don't blow it!

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P.T. Wyant link
2/11/2017 09:47:57 pm

So much emotion. Poor Tristan was probably overwhelmed. I hope he catches on and responds...

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Nell Iris link
2/12/2017 07:28:57 pm

Wow, very dramatic!

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Cheryl Headford link
2/14/2017 01:34:17 am

Oh my goodness, what a lot of raw emotion expressed in one kiss. I've always thought kissing was underappreciated in writing. Too often kissing is just a lead in to sex, but I think kissing is so much more and deserves more time and devotion. I loved this one.

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