I don’t know about you, but I miss Six Sentence Sunday. I made an image to use for it and everything. Here is its:
It was a huge group with a very diverse set of authors, some of whom absolutely rocked and some of whom I still follow. But eventually it folded and the group diverged into special interest groups. Most of the MM ones had words like “sexy” in their titles and I never really felt I fitted in there when posting six or however many sentences about whatever – loading a Long Nine, shoeing a horse, taking cavalry over rough ground, supplying an army in a harsh winter. But I still missed the weekly posts, the reasons to show up and display whatever I was working on. So I’m very pleased to be part of a brand new group started on Facebook by Charley Descouteax and Rian Durant. Here’s a new picture to go with the posts:
And here is my snippet for this week. It’s from a short story called Calon Lan, set in Wales during the Great War, and it’s a MM romance told from the point of view of the sister of one of the protagonists. These are the first few sentences of the story:
Bethan put the plate on the table and craned her neck to peer past her husband and through the window. The farmyard, still misty even though it was past noon, was empty apart from a few fowls.
“He’s run down the lane.” Nye picked up his knife and fork. “We saw the post cart. Beats me what Alwyn and his pals find to write about.”
Elin Gregory 
Well thank you very much. I shall have Calon Lan as an earworm all day!
I do love you Elin, my sister in writing/reading. It’s like when people post a “what are you reading” thread and I feel reluctant to reply as I might be nose deep in a history of the earth told via its fossil record, or an obscure Golden Age mystery.
We are off to Swindon again today, to meet up with Mr C’s bro for a present swop. They are going to the retail outlet en route. We’re off to tramp round an Iron Age hill fort.
BTW I want to read Calon Lan right now, so please could you write it faster? Or is it, by any glorious chance, already out and I missed it?
Yay, Swindon. I hope you had a good time.
I only have 3k of Calon Lan so far but I have all of it bar embellishments in my head. I just need to buckle down and get on with it. 🙂
thanks for visiting.
xxx
Oh how cool! I have gone over and joined it now, so you can at least have six sentences on how miserable it is to take a shower in a campsite shower block in December in the rain to keep you company 🙂
Brilliant 🙂 Where will you be posting your snippets? I’ve looked on your dot com blog and couldn’ see one there, though I very much appreciated the Le Guin essays. I’ve been in the age of invisibility, as she describes it in Tehanu, for a long time and it’s enormously liberating.
Interesting idea with the point of view. And how you managed to have so many beautiful names in just six sentences is beyond me.
Welcome to Rainbow Snippets, Elin! Thanks for posting–love the idea of a male-male romance told from the sister’s POV. Can’t wait to read the whole thing!
Thanks for setting it up sweetie. 🙂
I thought it might be interesting to view a male male romance from the POV of someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what she’s witnessing.
Hi Elin! I always love snippets of your stories and look forward to reading one every week. it seems like you have several books in the works now. Get them out there! Your stories are always so good. 🙂
*hugs* thanks lovely. 😀 It’s going to be a busy winter.
I miss Six Sentence Sundays too and honest I’m more interested in things other than the ‘sexy’ bits.
What a fascinating point of view to write this from. I liked it.
Thank you Jana. Fingers crossed that she won’t appear to be too innocent to modern eyes. But I know from personal and family experience how ignorant women were kept in the past.
Given that time period, very innocent would be believable.
What an interesting POV for this! And I’ve been drawn into the story and am seriously intrigued about the letters.
Thanks PT 😀 I’ll try to post teasy bits.
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