Monthly Archives: July 2024

Rainbow Snippets “Fireworks In Hudson City.” From Jeff Baker, July 27, 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 We’re late with this Fourth Of … Continue reading

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The Chicken Queen Hits Gotha…I Mean Goat’s Town. Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. July 26, 2024.

The Chicken’s Big Cluck/Flat Out Of Luck by Jeff Baker The dead of night at Liverwurst Labs at the edge of Goat’s Town. Home to the nation’s preeminent scientists and their cutting edge discoveries. But what’s this? Two familiar figures … Continue reading

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When I’m Sixty-Four by Jeff Baker. July 21, 2024.

I turned 64 on Saturday July 20th, 2024! Celebrated with some good friends (like kitty above!) and grilled burgers and ate too much cake. The night sky was cloudy or I would have gone out Moon-watching. The near-full Moon on … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets At The Continental Divide. (Sounds like a Fellini Western!) from Jeff Baker. July 19th, 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 The prompt pic (above) was one … Continue reading

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Progress Report For June/July 2024 from Jeff Baker. (July 19th, 2024)

Progress Report; June/July 2024 from Jeff Baker Really not a lot of progress to report this month. Maybe I was coming down from driving 4,000 miles last month. I did the usual Friday Flash Fiction stories and wrote the Flash … Continue reading

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Reading Report; June/July 2024 from Jeff Baker. (July 19th, 2024)

Reading Report June/July 2024 from Jeff Baker Not a lot of actual reading done this period. Maybe I was coming down from the long car trip. Read my usual online delights: Kaje Harper’s weekly story and J. Scott Coatsworth’s serial … Continue reading

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“Spare Tire Blues.” Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. (July 19, 2024.)

Spare Tire Blues by Jeff Baker “You’re kidding!” Jasper Wheeler said gawking at the old heap parked in the garage. “Old Man Kingston left you that?” “Yeah!” Eddie Shooter said. “Isn’t it great?” “Maybe about 1956 it would’ve been great, … Continue reading

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Melodramatic Slides And Teepees. Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Results for July 2024. (Mike Mayak, July 15, 2024.)

Happy Heatwave, Everybody! I’m Mike, AKA Jeff Baker The draws for the July 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were; A Melodrama Set in A Giant Teepee Involving a Slippery Slide E. H. Timms wrote “Threefold Summons.” https://thinkingthinking123.blogspot.com/2024/07/flash-fic-challenge-threefold-summons.html And I wrote … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets: “To Warm Their Fellows…” from Jeff Baker. July 15th, 2024.

(Photo by Kenny Blasco.) 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 Here’s the … Continue reading

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Drink from the Fontaine Di Roma. Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. July 12th, 2024.

Fontane Di Roma by Jeff Baker I stood and stared out the window at the small garden with the trickling stone fountain in the middle like a birdbath. “You’re not seriously telling me you think you’ve got the Fountain of … Continue reading

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