Monthly Archives: April 2025

“Air Time.” Friday Flash Fics Has Minutes To Spare, from Jeff Baker. (April 25, 2025)

Posted on April 25, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Air Time by Jeff Baker “Did you see him leave?” Gina said, glancing from the big glass front door to the rows of washers. “No,” Jack said, looking panicky. “I glanced over there at the two way mirror in the … Continue reading →

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Progress Report (A Very Brief Progress Report) For March/April 2025, from Jeff Baker. April 21st, 2025.

Posted on April 21, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Portrait Of the Author And An Uninterested Cat Progress Report March/April 2025 More planning than actual writing progress this period. I kept up with the weekly flash fiction and wrote a Queer Sci Fi column, but much of the rest … Continue reading →

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Henry Kuttner and Others! Jeff Baker’s March/April 2025 Reading Report. (April 21, 2025)

Posted on April 21, 2025 by jeffbaker307

A Henry Kuttner-heavy Reading Report for March/April 2025 Read “Food For Thought” by Felice Picano who had died a week earlier. It’s in is collection “Tales From A Distant Planet.” The story plays like an episode of the original “Star … Continue reading →

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“McGuffin’s Dragon.” Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. April 18th, 2025.

Posted on April 18, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Photo by Brent Silveria McGuffin’s Dragon by Jeff Baker “Have I ever told you chaps,” McGuffin said from his usual chair in the Billiards Room at the Club, “how I took on a dragon?” My sprained ankle was propped up … Continue reading →

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Meet Faye Min Fortune, for Rainbow Snippets from J. Scott Coatsworth (and Jeff Baker.) April 18th, 2025.

Posted on April 18, 2025 by jeffbaker307

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 friend J. Scott Coatsworth has … Continue reading →

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Dogs and Wheels! (And Money!) Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Results for April 14th, 2025, from Mike Mayak.

Posted on April 14, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Hi! I’m Mike, A.K.A. Jeff Baker. The draws for the April 2025 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: A Caper Story Set in A Racetrack Involving a Pair Of Leg Irons E. H. Timms wrote: “A Pack Of Lies” https://thinkingthinking123.blogspot.com/2025/04/flash-fic-challenge-pack-of-lies.html And … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Sister Tarcisia Roths! April 11, 2025.

Posted on April 11, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Happy Birthday to my onetime teacher Sister Tarcisia Roths, who celebrated her 95th on April 11, 2025 with a party at Newman University! She has been a hugely important part of the school for much of her life!

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Friday Flash Fics: “The Great Dinosaur Of 2155…” By Mike Mayak. April 11, 2025.

Posted on April 11, 2025 by jeffbaker307

The Great Dinosaur of 2155 or Please Don’t Eat the Paleontologist by Mike Mayak It was early in the Winter evening at the Carmine-Gardner Museum and the tall, silver-haired museum guide was glad this was the last group of schoolchildren … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Snippets Does “Motor Sports!” Mike Mayak, April 11, 2025.

Posted on April 11, 2025 by jeffbaker307

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 Riley and Patrick are back, because … Continue reading →

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“Motorsports!” Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story for April 2025, from Mike Mayak. (A.K.A. Jeff Baker.) April 9, 2025

Posted on April 9, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Motor Sports by Mike Mayak AUTHOR’S NOTE: The draws for the April 2025 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: a Caper Story, set at a Racetrack, involving a pair of leg irons. I’d just done a racetrack story about a month … Continue reading →

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