Photo by Kenny Blasco.

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.

It’s been a while since I’ve written about Skid and T’amec, the two twenty-something boyfriends who work in a magical mall in a magical world. In “All Hollowed Eve” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2023/10/26/halloween-at-the-food-garden-court-all-hollowed-eve-friday-flash-fics-from-jeff-baker-october-26th-2023/ they are dealing with “Octobrus.” The only two weeks of the year when ghosts can appear.

Skid glanced up as he wiped down a counter top there in the Food Garden Court. Ghosts were more active right now, some of them in small groups flying around the upper floor and the skylights. He glanced at the wall clock. He didn’t know why the Mall insisted on being open until Midnight on the last of Octobrus. Probably good for business. Not so good on the nerves.

Okay, here’s another snippet…

A pair of ghosts dive bombed Skid and he ducked. He could imagine them laughing.

“Maybe next year we’ll have the sense to be closed.” Skid said.

“Yeah, or I’ll be home hiding under my bed,” T’amec said. “Or under your bed,” he said with a grin.

See you next time ——jeff