Happy Saturday, folk. As ever it’s snippet day. click on the picture and it will take you to the Rainbow Snippets facebook group where a variety of authors post links to bits of published works and WIPs with LGBT protagonists.
Mine is a bit unusual in that my POV character is straight – the married sister of a soldier returned from the Great War with considerable emotional and physical scars. Bethan and her husband, who are hard-pressed to run the farm even with Alwyn’s assistance, have agreed that his friend Joe can come to help out.
They had a week to prepare. If the weather had been better Bethan might have suggested that they make a start on clearing out the little house on the other side of the yard. When she had been small the cowman had lived there with his wife and two nearly grown boys. But the boys had gone to Hereford and the railway, and the cowman had passed away quite suddenly so his wife had gone back to her mam’s. Bethan remembered how proud Alwyn had been to take over the milking, but she regretted now that they had allowed the little house to get so damp and drafty. With hard frosts most nights and the wind whistling through the broken shutters it just would not do.
“It’s no matter,” Alwyn assured her they pushed the damp swollen door closed. “We’ll scour it out when the weather improves but until then Joe can share with me. We slept close often enough in the trenches.”
I’m going through this story pretty much as it comes so if you go back to the first Rainbow Snippets post you can follow it from the beginning.
Elin Gregory 
I love Bethan’s memories and the multitude ofmeanings that can be read from Alwyn’s last line.
Hear hear! I love the gradual plottening of the thick!
I hope it will be plausible. Modern attitudes are so different.
Thank you, sweetie. Words are coming so slowly this week. Thanks for the encouragement.
I love how you tell so many other stories within your stories. Just tiny vignettes of other lives, like the cowman and his family.
Thanks lovely. 🙂
As soon as I get the programme for that festival I’ll ping you with a link. xx
Alwyn’s a sly devil. I wonder if Bethan sees through that statement? Or perhaps it’s Alwyn that doesn’t yet know what his subconscious has figured out.
Alwyn knows. And he’s going to have to be SO careful.
What Stevie said.
I really enjoy “outsider” POVs. I used one in Camwolf, but that was back when I was a fluffy baby writer and didn’t know that wasn’t what people usually did! 😉
🙂 I remember. Great book.
I hope this works. OTOH even if it doesn’t it gets me out of writing sex scenes. 😀
I’m really beginning to like Bethan. It’s interesting seeing that last line and having both reader “omniscience” but also Bethan’s limited understanding. You really have a way with these subtle details.
Thank you so much. I’m trying not to make her too gormless, but I’m writing partly from experience. I didn’t know anything about alternative sexualities until I went off to college.
That Alwyn. So thoughtful! Can’t wait for Joe to arrive.
It’ll be a few eeks yet, lovely 🙂 Thanks for commenting.
Alwyn’s had that planned, i think. Looking forward to meeting Joe!
Two bedroomed house 🙂 not a lot of options. But I’m sure the possible benefits have crossed his mind a time or two while out all on his lonesome in the fields.
Beautiful, as always 😀
I’m wondering if Alwyn will move to the other house with Joe — to give Bethan and her husband more privacy, of course.
Love the layers within this, particularly the stories Bethan connects with the house. It’s such a telling detail of the small world of a farm that everything has a history and significance to those who know the place.
I’m really enjoying this and that last line about the trenches so full of meanings.