It’s Pride month (depending on where you are) so this week’s snippet is taken from my Plumber’s Mate short story The Drag Queen Wore Red, which features Tom Paretski getting mixed up in mayhem at London Pride:
It was like trying to run through custard. Which was actually kind of an appropriate thought, seeing as how most of the crowd was, in varying proportions, hot, colourful and downright tasty. Everyone and his puppy-play pal was out on the streets of Soho for Pride, and most of ’em were wandering down Old Compton Street in the wrong bloody direction.
The right direction being, obviously, the one I was trying to chase after a would-be murderer in. He was dressed as an angel, in gold lamé shorts and matching wings, which you’d think would help him stand out in a crowd. Generally speaking, you’d be right.
In the middle of Pride? Not so much.
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The Drag Queen Wore Red – #3.5 in the Plumber’s Mate Mystery series
‘A rich and varied assortment of dark minds and dark deeds. Deliciously disturbing.’ Peter James -2015 Voted by WH Smith readers The Best Crime Author Of All Time
“For anyone whose literary tastes run to the dark and the twisty, CAPITAL KILLS is a damn near perfect taster menu.” – Simon Toyne – international bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy
Contains my story The Drag Queen Wore Red, a short story in the Plumber’s Mate Mystery series (set between Heat Trap and Blow Down)
Slightly psychic plumber Tom Paretski and his sister visit London Pride – but crime is never far away!
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JL Merrow 
Oh my, that is SUCH a fun snippet. Those last few lines cracked me up.
Thank you! 😀
Great description and those last lines had me laughing out loud and now I have to clean pink wintergreen lozenge bits off my screen.
Fortunately I didn’t have a mouthful of wine when I read that! 😉
Hahaha…yeah, one would think that outfit would stand out. 😀
And yet… 😉
Very amusing, I could picture the scene from the great description.
Thank you! 😀
That is a fabulous description! Thank you for sharing. And Happy Writing!
Thank you! 😀
Great way to describe the parade. And I’ve just bought Capital Crimes, so I’m looking forward to finding out where the gold lame angel fits in…
Aw, thank you! Hope you enjoy it! ❤
Intriguing introduction mingled with exquisitely vivid description! Love the last line, too! (heart)
Oh, this is grand. I can see it happening!
Haha, this was AWESOME! 🙂
Such a fun snippet! I love the description.
Great description…yah he’d stand out normally, not so much in this instance