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 stumbler across weird things Billy Gonzalez and his closeted teenage years. In one of his first jobs at a pizza place we find him discovering how his boss made his money in “Spirits Of the Earth and Air.”  https://authorjeffbaker.com/2023/12/11/flash-fiction-draw-challenge-story-from-jeff-baker-for-december-2023-dec-11-2023-spirits-of-the-earth-and-air/ (Did I mention there’s a full Moon on this mid-summer evening?)

I was working there with Mark and a couple of girls. I was just starting to realize I liked girls and guys but I was still stuffed in the closet. This was the late 1990s. It was just after sunset that I noticed the first of the fairies. I thought it was just a big moth. It flew past the front window as I was bussing the table at one of the back booths. I happened to be looking up.

Here’s snippet #2

It passed by a couple of times and I thought about the Hummingbird Moths my folks saw in their garden sometimes. Then I noticed this one had arms, legs and a very angry expression. Then I noticed a whole swarm of the things hovering and swirling over the parking lot; luckily the only cars were the employees’ in the back. No customers then.

“Billy!” Mark hollered from the kitchen. I ran over. He looked sick.

“There’s, there’s THINGS flying around outside.”

Well, that should be snippet enough for anybody! Next week, something for the holidays! Until then, watch out for very big flying things! —–jeff