#RainbowSnippets: Fairest

Welcome to Rainbow Snippets!

Every Saturday or Sunday those participating post and share six sentences of LGBTQIA+ fiction on their blogs. It can be their own. It can be someone else’s. It just needs to be LGBTQIA+.

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For my own, Rose faces her own smile in a strange mirror in Fairest…or is it her smile?

I stared, as all the rosiness drained out of my skin, leaving it pale white. My hair darkened, turning black. 

No, not my hair. 

The girl in the mirror lowered her head. When she raised it, she was the princess in the portrait. 

She opened her eyes. I realized they weren’t actually jet black, but a very dark blue. It was easy to see them as being darker, surrounded as they were by dusky curling eyelashes. 

Are you feeling the enchantment? Surrender to the sensation and follow the buy links…

Nine Star Press: https://ninestarpress.com/product/fairest/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fairest-K-S-Trenten-ebook/dp/B0CNSL28YR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26Q4LNG7UIVW2&keywords=Fairest+by+K.S.Trenten&qid=1701720288&s=books&sprefix=fairest+by+k.s.trenten,stripbooks,143&sr=1-1

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fairest-ks-trenten/1123806892?ean=2940179155874

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fairest-19

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1483368

Apple Book: https://books.apple.com/us/book/fairest/id6472735190

Shadowy Sunset

Jacob Berghoef (you can find his beautiful art collection at https://www.saatchiart.com/account/collection/905947) collaborates with me once more. I wrote this poem, reacting to another exquisite work of art he shared.

Smoke gives way to fire

The dying light of a raging sun

The darkness of the shadows grow gray

Paler in the face of their opposite’s dimming glow

Ilusions bubble in as our senses grow less certain

Seeing our own passion in the fading light

Leaving a soft pink afterimage behind

A reminder of the pleasures as well as the pain

As we remember many a light burst into a final array of colors

Before we turn away from it, allowing it to fade into the darkness

Like a dream, we cannot recall the moment clearly

Released from the enchantment of its final glow

Comfortable in the realization we shall see it again

Too relaxed to realize we’ve just been given a treasure

A treasure we carelessly left behind in the shadows of our dreams

Fading from our memories as we awaken. 

Lonely Morning (A Shadow’s Reflection)

Here’s a special collaboration! A poem, inspired by and paired with Jacob Berghoef’s Lonely Morning in The Narrow Path collection. Check out his art gallery to see some exquisite images which inspire ambient fantasy and display the beauty in nature at…

https://www.saatchiart.com/account/collection/905947

I look at the dark trees standing sentinel amidst the purple shadows in Lonely Morning and I can imagine Christopher is about to step from the mists. Here’s a poem, written from his perspective…

Night gives way to purple shadow

The oblivion waiting beneath the trees

Born from the shadows, I’m embraced by the mist

Taking my airy steps into something more solid

Worlds await in the scattered fragments of light

A doorway awaits in the lavender thoughts

Scattered like leaves upon the forest floor

Memories which dreamers left behind to dissolve

I drink them like water, refreshed and invigorated

The coolness giving me a more solid form

Even if I dare not infuse my shape with too much of myself

Committing all of me to a single identity

I don’t need to fear it, not amidst the comforting darkness of trees

Ready to accept me back into mist and shadow. 

Like what you’re reading? You can check out my published works at…

http://www.amazon.com/author/kstrenten