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: [LINK]

My snippets this week are from a story I wrote for the recent Flash Fiction Draw Challenge, where the prompts were; a Legend, set in a herd of horses involving a grapefruit. Always on the make for riches, my fugitive Bisexual Prince Almazotz is intrigued by “The Legend Of the Golden Horse.” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2024/01/11/legend-of-the-golden-horse-flash-fiction-draw-challenge-story-from-jeff-baker-january-11-2024/

Tales are told of the wandering Prince Almazotz, and of his many adventures attempting to escape his Royal Father’s wrath as well as an arranged marriage to a stuffy and boring prince of another realm. But when the three moons ride high in the sky the ancient chronicles recall the wild night of the Prince’s encounter with the Horse-Drover YoPo and his attempt to find the legendary Horse of Gold.

It had transpired earlier that evening that the Prince (disguised as usual in more humble garments) had come across the Horse-Drover watering his horses at the Fountain Of the Really Smelly Animals. The Prince remembered the Prophecy about the Golden Horse. (The Prince had a mental catalog of any prophecy that involved gold, silver or jewels.)

Prince Almazotz is my attempt to do a de Camp style comic fantasy, so I set it on my mystical sci-fi-ish World Of Three Moons and have several stories posted on my blog and a longer story making its way through the slushpiles. And yes, there will be a book!

Next week, something for those of us who are watching the thermometer! —–jeff