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Monday Flash Fics for February 13, 2017; “Cold War.”

Cold War By Jeff Baker   The two men sat on the park bench in the snowy dusk. “Snow everywhere, just like in Russia,” said Illianovich. “Snow like in New Jersey,” Meader said, idly brushing snow off the edge of … Continue reading

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Monday Flash Fics for February 6, 2017; “A Line in the Sand.”

A Line in the Sand By Jeff Baker “Okay,” Chad said, scrawling with his finger in the sand as they sat on the beach. “The coffee table’s here.” “That doesn’t look like a coffee table,” Gary said. “It’s rectangular, it’s … Continue reading

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Monday Flash Fics: “The Case of the Velvet Clause.”

                               The Case of the Velvet Clause                                                 By Jeff Baker               “Hey! Watch your hand! That’s my crotch you’re squishing!”             “Oh, sorry!”             It was an occupational hazard at the law firm of Musselman and Pearce. Their … Continue reading

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Monday Flash Fics: “No Room at the Inn”

                                    No Room at the Inn                                         By Jeff Baker               The weather was bitter cold, the stars were a glorious spread of winter colors and the lights on the idling trucks were orange. The two men stood … Continue reading

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Spooky New Year’s Eve, Everybody!

Something to end the year with! Happy New Year!                                  At The Stroke of Midnight                                             By Jeff Baker               “Aw, come on, Uncle Billy! Please?”             “Let us stay up! Pleeeeeeease?”             “No deal, guys,” Billy Gonzalez … Continue reading

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“The Mystery of Pere Noel,” Monday Flash Fics for Christmas, 2016

(For my Christmas story, I decided to give myself a present—I’d always wanted to write a story about Edgar Allan Poe’s great precursor to Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin. While there have been many Holmes pastiches, those of Dupin are few and … Continue reading

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Christmas Story; “Christmas at Demeter’s Bar”

  (Author’s note: I owe ‘Nathan Burgoine for this idea, of posting some Christmas stories using characters we’ve written about. I haven’t done a lot of blog hops, so it seemed like fun! About a year and a half ago … Continue reading

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The Forest—Monday Flash Fics, November 21, 2016

Note: Actually had trouble getting the “voice” in this one down, then all of a sudden I had it and I also have an additional page—this may develop into something a bit longer although this type of fantasy setting is … Continue reading

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Window on the World, Monday Flash Fics

Almost didn’t write one this week, but this just poured out of me in the middle of the week. Call it an attempt to say something optimistic, or just tell a good story. —–j                                                                                                                  Window on the World                                     … Continue reading

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Dance of the Hours–Monday Flash Fics

This one was written heavily under the influence of Halloween!                                    Dance of the Hours                                         By Jeff Baker               “Sssst! Over here! By this wall! Try not to attract attention!”             “We’re naked. Anybody sees us, we … Continue reading

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