Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets here https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974

This is from another of my stories posted on the RoMMantic Reads e-zine. https://rommanticreads.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/summer-flash-challenge-2-jeff-baker/ The idea here was to select a couple of pictures and have the regular writers do a summer story. I used both pictures, one of a sand sculpture of an alligator and the other of a spiral staircase with Christmas lights. So I had a little fun with Christmas in August!

“Well, we got the pictures for the museum Christmas card taken,” Luke said. “Glad they shut the place down for the night so we could do this.”

“Glad they left the air conditioning on,” Wally said.

“The digital pics will be easy to send but y’know, sometimes I miss the old way. Darkrooms, the feel you were doing it yourself.”

Wally trotted down the stairs and walked up to his boyfriend, moving the camera hanging down on his chest to the side so they could embrace.

“I remember doing a few things in a darkroom.” Wally said.

The two men kissed for a minute.

Just a little longer than six lines but I couldn’t resist! Especially when the lines about it being more fun the old way were actually said to me by a photographer! —–jeff