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Rainbow Snippet June 25-26

6/26/2016

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I'm a little late posting, but it's weekend and time for 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 will identify as LGBTQ+.

My snippet comes from The Scholar's Heart again this weekend. I couldn't decide what I wanted to post, but I ended up choosing this snippet of conversation between Tristan and his younger brother Maxen. Maxen is a character who was only supposed to have a small role, but I ended up really liking him, so I'll be writing him more. Turns out he has a story of his own to tell. In this scene, Tristan and Maxen are having a middle of the night conversation in which Maxen tells Tristan some things he really needs to hear.
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​Maxen only smiled, kind, his stare much less intense. “You thought I didn’t know? Of course I did. I saw the way you were with Prince Amory, years ago, before he married Prince Philip. And you never really looked at girls the way I did. So I assumed you preferred men. But then you married Dariela.” 

“That was for the family. Father wanted me to.” 

​“Father wanted you to be happy in your life, Tristan,” Maxen said, his voice gentle, as if he knew the import of what he said and the effect his words would have on Tristan. He probably did. “He wouldn’t have cared, not really, if you married a man instead of a woman. He might have been upset if you left the business behind and ran off to be a juggler or something like that, but not because you loved a man instead of a woman.”

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoyed this week's snippet!
6 Comments
jana denardo
6/26/2016 07:43:31 pm

Loved the emotions in this snippet.

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Antonia Aquilante
6/30/2016 09:38:00 am

Thank you, Jana!

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P.T. Wyant link
6/26/2016 09:31:54 pm

Maxen seems wise -- wiser than Tristan, perhaps.

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Antonia Aquilante
6/30/2016 09:38:54 am

He's definitely seeing this situation a lot clearer than Tristan is right now.

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Addison Albright link
6/27/2016 11:21:32 am

I like Tristan's younger brother, too. Looking forward to his story! :-)

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Antonia Aquilante
6/30/2016 09:39:48 am

Thanks, Addison! I'm looking forward to writing it. Need finish something else first though...

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