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 is an extra for my 9^th Anniversary week of posting regular stories. I wrote a sequel to my story “The Grey Ferris” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2022/02/04/ride-the-grey-ferris-for-friday-flash-fics-by-jeff-baker-february-4th-2022/ influenced by the May calendar page of Joe Phillips’ “Boy Oh Boy” Calendar for 2025. https://www.facebook.com/joe.phillips.393 I always try to do something special and so I wrote this. Hang on to your hats! Here’s snippets from “Above It All” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2025/05/27/get-above-it-all-for-a-friday-flash-fics-anniversary-extra-from-jeff-baker-may-27-2025-picture-by-joe-phillips/

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.

“You okay?” Burt, his boyfriend in his “Planet Of the Apes” t-shirt said, sitting next to him what felt like a million feet up.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Ross said, grinning at his boyfriend and feeling the plush dinosaur under his arm that they’d won at the midway. He glanced over to one side. He could see the huge skyscrapers, the vast city and the mountains beyond. Still, somehow it reminded them of the County Fair with its traveling attractions in the small farm town they’d grown up in.

Here’s juuuuuust a little more…

“Yeah,” Ross said. “Remember kissing on the Ferris wheel when it reached the point where nobody could see us?”

“Yeah,” Burt breathed softly, leaning in to kiss his boyfriend. They held for a moment and Ross thought he heard somebody in a seat behind them laughing and applauding.

“Okay, guys, break it up!” That was the attendant as the chair reached the platform where they had to jump off. “Watch your step, and don’t have too much fun!”

I had to leave that kiss in there for you folks!

See you soon with more snippets!

—-jeff