Category Archives: Fantasy

Melodramatic Slides And Teepees. Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Results for July 2024. (Mike Mayak, July 15, 2024.)

Happy Heatwave, Everybody! I’m Mike, AKA Jeff Baker The draws for the July 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were; A Melodrama Set in A Giant Teepee Involving a Slippery Slide E. H. Timms wrote “Threefold Summons.” https://thinkingthinking123.blogspot.com/2024/07/flash-fic-challenge-threefold-summons.html And I wrote … Continue reading

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Drink from the Fontaine Di Roma. Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. July 12th, 2024.

Fontane Di Roma by Jeff Baker I stood and stared out the window at the small garden with the trickling stone fountain in the middle like a birdbath. “You’re not seriously telling me you think you’ve got the Fountain of … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets: “Wild Horses” from Jeff Baker. (July 6th, 2024)

Every week we post six lines from a story or ours, a work in progress or a recommendation of a work of someone else’s, that has LGBT characters. Posted at Rainbow Snippets here; https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 To return to my snippeting, I’m … Continue reading

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Hear The Eagle Call: Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker for July 5th, 2024.

I Heard The Eagle Call My Name by Jeff Baker The Eagle spoke to Tony as he was washing the cars in the used car lot that Summer morning. It was the week of the Fourth of July and Tony’s … Continue reading

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“If All Their Sand Were Pearl.” Friday Flash Fics From Jeff Baker, June 28, 2024.

If All Their Sand Were Pearl by Jeff Baker (Title from Shakespeare) It was late Sunday afternoon in Millington and the streets looked deserted when Hal and Denny, looking like High School kids walked up to the old stone canopy … Continue reading

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“Three Kings.” A Blog Post (and Some Nostalgia) From Jeff Baker

Three Kings by Jeff Baker I’ve told this story before. Sometime around the fall semester of 1981 when I was in College, one weekend when I had no homework and didn’t have to go work at my job I grabbed … Continue reading

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“To Warm Their Fellows In The Night.” Friday Flash Fiction Anniversary Story by Jeff Baker. (May 24th, 2024.)

Photo By Kenny Blasco To Warm Their Fellows In the Night by Jeff Baker It was cold, the kind of cold where even the slightest breeze increases the chill. Tarlos pulled his cloak tighter around him, grateful for his warm … Continue reading

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Ride “The Star Cruiser” for Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker (May 10th, 2024.)

The Star Cruiser by Jeff Baker We called it the Star Cruiser I. We could use it to escape Earth’s gravity, travel beyond the Moon and cross galaxies. It had near-infinite power but that meant it could only go as … Continue reading

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“Davey, What the Hell Happened To You?” A Good Question To Ask In The Twili…I Mean, In Rainbow Snippets. Jeff Baker, April 27th, 2024.

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/963484217054974 I promised something spooky and mysterious … Continue reading

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“Burger And Fries,” Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story From Jeff Baker. April 8th, 2024.

Burger With Fries by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: The Draws for this month’s Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: A Bedtime Story, set at a Burger Place, involving a Pepper Mill. I’d been where a buddy of mine had stayed in … Continue reading

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