Every week at Rainbow Snippets https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 we post six lines from a work of ours, a work in progress or a work of someone else’s with LGBT characters.

For Halloween Week, another preview. My Halloween story will be posted here https://authorjeffbaker.com/ next Friday. Until then GRWTG for an evening out.

That’s “Get Ready With The Ghosts,” by the way…

You’d think Halloween in a genuinely haunted house would be fun, but not when you’re the ghosts and the home’s blissfully unaware owners were out for the weekend.

Gus and Bertram (“Bertie”) had been happily “shacked-up” (as Bertie liked to put it) for decades and had been haunting the house ever since. The house was in Gus Rowley’s family and while it wasn’t a mansion it did have a name: Peregrine House, thanks to the stone bird carved on the front porch and rubbed away by nearly a century of children. Peregrine House was in an old neighborhood by the river and the two ghosts largely kept quiet and unnoticed by the families that lived there happily.

But Gus and Bertie were bored and so they decided to go out for the evening, even though as ghosts they knew they couldn’t stay very long.

Happy Halloween, everybody! See you soon!—–jeff