Every Week at Rainbow Snippets https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 participants post six lines of a work of theirs, a work-in-progress or a work by someone else that has LGBT characters. This week, I’m posting the set-up to my story “The French Table” which you can read here https://authorjeffbaker.com/2025/10/02/see-the-french-table-for-friday-flash-fics-from-jeff-baker-october-3rd-2025/

Nice normal stuff, right? Trust me, this is appropriate for Halloween…

Oscar and Elliot had been driving home from Denver to Kansas City when they stopped in D’Artagnan, Kansas. Not much there. Houses. Businesses along the highway and along the main drag through town.

“Main drag!” Elliot laughed to his husband.

They were driving down the main street to grab lunch. The Mexican restaurant was surprisingly good (“Every serape is a pride flag in disguise!” Oscar whispered as they had sat down in their booth.)

Here’s a little more:

As it was mid-afternoon when they finished they decided to work off their lunch with a stroll down the street and they found the antique store in the shadow of the old-fashioned marquee above the movie theater, next to a Bridal Shoppe.

“Turtle Antiques,” Oscar read aloud from the green sign hand-painted on the front window with, yes, a little turtle at the base.

“Town’s looking like a Gay Mecca,” Elliot whispered as they walked in the door. Nonetheless, they were both glad they were forty-somethings dressed in jeans and nondescript sweatshirts.

See you later with more snippets. Until then, be good to yourself and each other. —jeff