Monthly Archives: May 2025

Rainbow Snippets goes “Above It All.” Jeff Baker, Picture By Joe Phillips. May 31, 2025.

Posted on May 31, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Illustration By Joe Phillips (Almost) 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/RainbowSnippets This … Continue reading →

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Reading Report Extra! Horror MAYhem: Decades Of Dread! Jeff Baker, May 30, 2025

Posted on May 30, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report Addenda: “Horror MAYhem 2025” For fun, I’m participating in “Horror MAYhem: Decades Of Dread” a Book Tube event where they read horror stories from several decades. I’m not on Book Tube so I’m just posting the results here, … Continue reading →

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“Escape The Heat” With Friday Flash Fics, As By Mike Mayak. (May 29, 2025)

Posted on May 30, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Escape the Heat by Mike Mayak “Pwhew” Jake Malagar said. “Cold in here. Should have brought my hoodie.” “It’s 101 degrees out there,” Ricky Jago said, thumbing at the big glass doors that looked out onto the Library parking lot. … Continue reading →

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Get “Above It All” for a Friday Flash Fics Anniversary Extra, from Jeff Baker. May 27, 2025. (Picture by Joe Phillips)

Posted on May 27, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Picture by Joe Phillips. Friday Flash Fics Anniversary Extra: Above It All by Jeff Baker Ross grinned and hung onto the side of the chair of what he called a ski lift, even if it was the middle of summer. … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Snippets From Here to Eternity from Jeff Baker

Posted on May 24, 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/RainbowSnippets I don’t post as many snippets … Continue reading →

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From Here To Eternity, Or Nine Years At Least! Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. (May 23, 2025)

Posted on May 23, 2025 by jeffbaker307

From Here To Eternity Or Thereabouts Friday Flash Fics 9th Anniversary Story by Jeff Baker Geoff found Scott, his teen-age son looking through an old box of photographs in the back room. “I didn’t know anybody still had these!” Scott … Continue reading →

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April/May 2025 Progress Report (Not Much!) From Jeff Baker. (May 20, 2025)

Posted on May 20, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Progress Report April/May 2025 from Jeff Baker Again for this period not a lot of progress to report writing-wise. Wrote the regular flash fictions, including one for my 9th anniversary of the near-weekly stories and an extra or two. Really … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: April/May 2025 from Jeff Baker. With Some Horror MAYhem! (May 20, 2025)

Posted on May 20, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report: April/May 2025 I’ve found this period I did more reading away from the house: at the laundromat and at the repair shop. Twice. (Low tires.) Read Robert W. Chambers’ story “The Tomb of Samaris.” (Actually several chapters in … Continue reading →

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“All Aboard” For Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. (Gee, coming up with the headline this week was easy!) May 16, 2025.

Posted on May 16, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Photo by Brent Silveria All Aboard by Jeff Baker We’d been downstairs watching Uncle Cuthbert run his model train he had set up on the big table in his basement. Watching as it ran under the mountain and past the … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Results! May 2025!!!

Posted on May 12, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Hi! I’m Mike, A.K.A. Jeff Baker. The draws for the May 2025 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: A Western Set in A Palace Involving a Director’s Chair E. H. Timms wrote: “Behind Closed Doors.” https://thinkingthinking123.blogspot.com/2025/05/flash-fic-challenge-behind-closed-doors.html And I wrote: “A Contest … Continue reading →

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