luninosity

Over on the Rainbow Snippets Facebook Group, Charley Descoteaux gave us all a challenge to share six lines of something we’re working on, or one of our books, on our blogs! So here’s mine.

This is from my next 99 cent flash fiction short for JMS Books – it’s called “A Sonnet for a Thunderstorm,” and it’ll be released April 17! It’s historical m/m, 18th century, and vaguely steampunk – a poet and his retired pirate, a domestic moment, and discussion of thunderstorms and submarines…

Here’s the opening! You can pre-order “Sonnet” now at Amazon or at JMS Books (where it’s only 79 cents for pre-orders)!

Ellis had been watching waves through the bedroom’s storm-lashed windows when he heard the step, felt the presence behind him. He turned, a reflex. A year or two ago, ignoring those pirate’s instincts might’ve got him a quick dagger to the back. These days, and this day especially, he knew Thomas’s step.

Tom, as usual, blithely ignored whipcord muscles and danger and the very real possibility that Ellis could kill a man with a piece of rope or that painting to their left, and instead slipped arms around him.

Ellis Eden, former pirate, had not often been held and comforted by anyone.