Monthly Archives: December 2021

Tales of Auld Lang Syne: Happy New Year’s Eve from Friday Flash Fics, by Jeff Baker. December 31, 2021.

Auld Lang Syne by Jeff Baker The sun was setting as the little girl and the old man stared at each other there on the beach. “Nobody told me it would be a girl!” he said with a smile. “Hey! … Continue reading

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Post-Christmas Progress Report from Jeff Baker. (December 26, 2021)

This is the first one of these reports I’ve posted since early November and I’ve made some progress writing-wise but not as much as I’d hoped. But I have made up for it recently. First: I’ve written the weekly and … Continue reading

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Christmas Rainbow Snippets Recommendation, from Jeff Baker. December 25th, 2021.

Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work-in-progress or published or a recommendation of someone else’s work with at least one LGBT character. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 I’m recommending a whole book this … Continue reading

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Emilthrii and Stalarovyotep …a Christmas Tale of the Macabre for Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. December 24th, 2021.

Emilthrii and Stalarovyotep by Jeff Baker The sunsets were getting earlier so on the evening before the New Moon I took the shovel and went out to the Northeast corner of my backyard. I glanced at the darkened, cloudy sky, … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets: A Creepy Arrangement, from Jeff Baker, December 18, 2021.

Arrangement In Black and Gray Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work-in-progress or published or a recommendation of someone else’s work with at least one LGBT character. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 Snippet this … Continue reading

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“Las Posadas,” A Friday Flash Fics Christmas Story by Jeff Baker (December 17, 2021)

Las Posadas by Jeff Baker It was a couple of weeks before Christmas around 1993, a week before finals and I was going to St. Nigel’s College in Kansas. To my mind about as far away from where Scott Garcia … Continue reading

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Mystery of the Vanished Ray Gun, December 2021 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story by Jeff Baker, December 12, 2021.

The Mystery of the Vanished Ray Gun by Jeff Baker The December 2021 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge story’s prompts were a Mystery set in a highway toll both involving a ray gun. A perfect case for my 23rd Century Detective … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets: “Christmas at Demeter’s Bar” by Jeff Baker. December 11, 2021.

Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work-in-progress or published or a recommendation of someone else’s work. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 Here’s some more snippets from a Christmas story I wrote. This one from … Continue reading

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Tread Carefully Into Deep Waters…Angel Martinez does another fine reading of one of my stories! (Dec. 10, 2021)

Angel Martinez reads a story (or part of one!) every Friday on her blog. Today, she reads one of mine: “One Foot In Sea and One On Shore.” She’s done me the kindness of reading my stories before, but this … Continue reading

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The One Hundred Thirty-Three Steps: Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. (December 10, 2021.)

The One Hundred-Thirty-Three Steps by Jeff Baker “We gotta be out of our minds!” Karl said gawking up at the stairway. “Yeah, but those are the stairs. THE stairs,” Johnny said. “We gotta haul all that stuff up those stairs,” … Continue reading

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