February 9th, 2024

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

My snippets this week are from another story I’d forgotten about (from 2017.) “The Optimum Fractured Curve Against The Reality Flow Matrix Theory,” which was posted in October 2017. https://authorjeffbaker.com/2017/10/27/friday-flash-fics-from-jeff-baker-for-october-27-2017/ Nothing quite like bumping into an old college boyfriend. Except when he materializes unexpectedly in your house…

I hadn’t seen Roberto Anyas in about thirty years when I turned around that morning to see him lying there in bed. He hadn’t been there a moment before. He stared at me and a broad smile spread over his face.

“Connor?” the man in the bed said. Roberto’s voice all right.

“Roberto?” I managed to sputter out.

“Looks that way!” Roberto said. “My gosh! You look great!”

“Yeah, you too!” I said. “I mean, you really haven’t changed.” I was convinced I was still in bed asleep and that it was the middle of the night, not mid-morning. Usually when I dreamed about Roberto Anyas he was bare armed and bare chested. Like now.

Juuuust a bit more than six lines but I couldn’t resist! Here’s more!

“So, you zapped here from, like, 1988 or something?” I asked.

“More like the early 75^th Century. After I graduated, I got involved with this think tank, we were going to try and reach the future. The tattoos are microdots, linked in with the mainframe and with me. I can work it mentally so I went ahead about eight thousand years. Tried to learn something about future technology.” He shook his head. “They didn’t like that. I got out of there in a hurry. You were the first person I thought of so I homed in on you.”

Hmmmm…I didn’t explain why Roberto popped in without his clothes…maybe he knew what he was doing after all! Next week, something a little newer. Till then, take care and happy reading! —-jeff