Monthly Archives: December 2023

Happy New Year, 1969! From Jeff Baker, December 31, 2023.

Happy New Year! From Jeff Baker (December 31, 2023) Here’s my New Year’s Eve Story. December 31st, 1969 my Mom & Dad went down the street to a party, leaving me with a babysitter; Jan, the girl who lived next … Continue reading

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WRUD For Rainbow Snippets on New Year’s Eve? From Jeff Baker, December 31, 2023.

Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work that we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets, here;  https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets We close out this year of snippets with a New … Continue reading

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“The Year Is Gone Beyond Recall.” A Story For New Year’s By Jeff Baker. December 26, 2023.

The Year Is Gone Beyond Recall by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: No Friday Flash Fiction story this week, but I have a story for New Year’s that I’m posting this week. The picture that inspired it I took right before … Continue reading

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Visit The Misfit Toys of “Handmade Holidays” by ‘Nathan Burgoine. Rainbow Snippets, Jeff Baker December 22, 2023.

December 22, 2023. Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work that we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets, here; https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets/?multi_permalinks=24307088435601223&notif_id=1703302181358719&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif No better place on Christmas Week to … Continue reading

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“Gas Lights.” A Friday Flash Fics Christmas Story from Jeff Baker. December 22, 2023.

Gas Lights by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: Here’s my Friday Flash Fics Christmas story! We’ll be taking a break for the holidays, and be back with another prompt picture January 5th, 2024. Until then, thank you for participating and thank … Continue reading

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Reading Report, December 2023 from Jeff Baker. (December 22, 2023)

First off, an addenda to last month’s report; I read a Sherlock Holmes story I hadn’t read before. “The Adventure of The Three Students.” I’m crazy about anything Arthur Conan Doyle wrote and this story is fun, even though the … Continue reading

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End-Of-The-Year Progress Report for 2023 from Jeff Baker

Progress Report for End of 2023 by Jeff Baker (December 13, 2023) I started doing these Progress Reports a few years ago and started doing them on a monthly basis this year. I did a year-end wrap-up last year, so … Continue reading

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Progress Report for December 2023 from Jeff Baker. December 22, 2023.

Not a huge amount of progress to report this month and that’s a good thing. After being under a few big deadlines through the summer, I told myself I would take it easy for a while. Then around September I … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets: “Spirits Of The Earth And Air.” Pizza, Strange Flying Things and Billy Gonzalez. Jeff Baker, December 16th, 2023.

Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, or of someone else’s or a book recommendation of a work with LGBT characters posted at Rainbow Snippets here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets This recent story of mine goes back to my Bisexual … Continue reading

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Room For Rent with Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. December 15, 2023.

Room For Rent by Jeff Baker Norby, Kansas wasn’t too far away from where we all lived but I hadn’t been through there in a while. But with our son going off to College I figured we ought to. It … Continue reading

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