#RainbowSnippets 15-16 April. Happy Easter :)
Coming at you with another entry to the excellent Rainbow Snippets group on facebook. Decided to go back to my forthcoming releaseMisdemeanorfor this one and introduce another character. This time we have Dougie. The rotund Shelf Stacker, sorry Grocery Floor Assistant, at the supermarket where our MC's work. I realise the picture may not be the thing to sway anyone to read this book.... but trust me, he's a hoot!****“Girls are like anyone, Doug. Just talk to them. Like you talk to me.” Micky grabbed a few more packets of flour and pushed them to the back of the shelf.“I talk to you about my farts,” Dougie said.Micky grimaced. It was true. He did. He’d only been working with the guy a week and already Micky had been given a blow-by-blow account of Dougie’s problem with personal flatulence.“Okay, don’t do that, then.”“Girls don’t want to talk to me. I mean, look at me. Dan gets more girls than me and he doesn’t even want them.” Dougie accidentally ripped his thumb through the top of the flour bag with his more animated grumbling. Micky saw him peep shiftily around, relieved no one had noticed. A small hole in a packet of flour wasn’t the end of the world, was it?“Yeah,” Micky agreed, “it’s the dimples.”****Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.And a little intro to our Dougie...

Published on April 15, 2017 12:33
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