April 19, 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

I based the story https://authorjeffbaker.com/2024/04/12/behind-the-sealed-door-by-jeff-baker-friday-flash-fics-for-april-12-2024/ on which these snippets are taken from the every-now-and-then real life happening where someone in an old building will find some jun…I mean, a relic from the past in an unused room. Here’s “Behind the Sealed Door.”

We were filling up at the Pic-Mart on the West side of town when Joey glanced across the street and saw the old building on the corner. Last time we’d been in the area the windows had been boarded up but now somebody was putting in new glass.

“Hey Bryant!” Joey said. “Didn’t you say you used to work over there?”

“Yeah, when I was in High School,” I said. “That was about twenty years ago back in the Nineties.”

“More like Thirty,” Joey said with a grin.

Okay, just a little bit more…

Joey had been born the year after I graduated High School. Despite a twenty-year age difference we’d hit it off when we were fixed up on a blind date and had been together almost ten years.

“Yeah, I worked for Old Man Higgins selling candy and whatnot before Pic-Mart came in and he sold the place and retired.” I said, watching the price zoom up on the pump.

“Hey, what was that you were telling me about when they knocked down a wall or something?” Josh asked.

“Oh yeah,” I said. “One of the shelves started to fall apart and Mr. Higgins had someone come out to replace it. They pulled out the whole case, shelves and all and found a door behind it what nobody had opened in years.”

A friend of mine thought the story was spooky and mysterious! I DID borrow the title from an ancient radio horror show “The Sealed Book.”

Next week, something spooky and mysterious! Till then, take care! ——–jeff