Monthly Archives: October 2020

An H. G. Wells Halloween; a memory from Jeff Baker

It was about 1980-81. I was still in College, living in the dorm. Some time around the 29th-31st we held an impromptu Halloween party one evening in one of the dorm rooms; first floor, west corner. Probably too many people … Continue reading

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Play the Monster Mash for Friday Flash Fics, by Jeff Baker. October 30, 2020.

They Played the Monster Mash                                                By Jeff Baker                                     9/28             OMG! Daddy’s throwing my B-Day Party in a castle! Band and Everything!             9/29             Hey! U Coming 2 party? We will PARTY! Oct. 31 on All Hallows … Continue reading

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Progress Report from Jeff Baker for October 23, 2020

Finished the Friday Flash Fiction story for the week: “Long Ago and Far Away,” named after the song from WWII. Set it in Ramble, MO a fictional town I’ve written about before. Probably influenced by seeing “Back to the Future” … Continue reading

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Traveling Music for Friday Flash Fics, October 23, 2020. “Long Ago and Far Away” by Jeff Baker.

                                     Long Ago and Far Away                                               By Jeff Baker             My Dad took me out for my first legal beer the weekend after my twenty-first birthday. We’d actually gotten closer since I’d opened up about having a boyfriend in … Continue reading

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Progress Report, October 21/22, 2020 from Jeff Baker.

Not much to tell; got a copy of an omnibus edition of three novels by a writer who will be the subject of a Queer Sci-Fi column, and I wrote the column yesterday and today. That’s all for now!

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Progress Report; Week of October 11-17, 2020, from Jeff Baker.

Worked of the Flash Fiction Draw Challenge story (which I’d forgotten we were doing!) Also did the Friday Flash Fiction story this morning (Friday, Oct. 16th) and posted it! Another adventure of the wandering Bryce Going; I have at least … Continue reading

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The Yellow Wall. Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker for October 16, 2020.

                                                  The Yellow Wall (A Bryce Going Story)                                                       By Jeff Baker             When your I.D. is fake and you’re being paid under the table, you don’t ask a lot of questions. I was paid a week’s salary to spend … Continue reading

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Lodovico Senarinz and His (Grandfather’s) Steam-Powered Hyperdrive. Flash Fiction Draw Story by Jeff Baker. October 11, 2020

            Lodovico Senarinz and his (Grandfather’s) Steam Powered Hyperdrive                                                    By Jeff Baker             “There it is! There’s the barn!”             Johnny Reade pointed his flashlight at the dark bulk in the dusk. It looked like something out of the … Continue reading

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Messing About In Boats for Friday Flash Fics, October 9, 2020 by Jeff Baker

                                               Messing About In Boats                                               (A Demeter’s Bar Story)                                                      By Jeff Baker             The balding man sipped on his Bloody Mary and looked around Demeter’s Bar.             “I don’t care what the city fathers are trying to do. … Continue reading

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Progress Report, October 7, 2020 from Jeff Baker

Surprised myself and finished “Messing About in Boats,” the new Friday Flash story, and a Demeter’s bar story at that! Looks better than i thought it would! Also worked on the Monthly Flash Fiction Draw story which will be finished … Continue reading

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