Category Archives: Romance

Spooky Baby Buggy Bumpers. Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Stories for December, 2024. (Mike Mayak, December 9, 2024)

Hi! I’m Mike, A.K.A. Jeff Baker. The draws for the December 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were: A Romance Set in a Haunted House Involving Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers E. H. Timms wrote: “Love After Death.” https://thinkingthinking123.blogspot.com/2024/12/flash-fic-challenge-love-after-death.html And I wrote: … Continue reading

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“King Of The Road.” Friday Flash Fics for April 26th, 2024. From Jeff Baker.

King Of the Road by Jeff Baker The two of them could hear the crickets from the darkened trailer and they grinned. Harve and Lucas had been best friends since Grade School and had been camping out in Harvey’s family’s … Continue reading

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“Hold The Mirror Up To Nature.” Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. March 15, 2024.

Hold The Mirror Up To Nature by Jeff Baker Marcus stared at the audience through the little opening in the stage curtain. “Holy mackerel! There’s a crowd out there!” he breathed. “Don’t look through that!” Erik said, slapping his arm. … Continue reading

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“On The Busses.” NSFW From Skip Hanford. February 27, 2024.

Saw this pic on Facebook and the story banged into my head. Wish I looked like him! Wish I was the narrator of this story! Enjoy! —-skip On The Busses by Skip J. Hanford February 27, 2024 I was on … Continue reading

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Sit “On The Front Porch” By the Lake for Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. January 19th, 2024.

Photo by James Wheeler off Pexels On The Front Porch by Jeff Baker The music was playing soft and the radio and Doug was sitting on the front porch of his family’s lakeside cabin, watching the Moon reflect in the … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets Paints the Meadows With Delight. Jeff Baker, November 18, 2023.

November 18, 2023 Every week we post six lines of a story of ours, a work-in-progress or from someone else’s work that we recommend that has LGBT characters on Rainbow Snippets, here; https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets/?multi_permalinks=24082521664724569&notif_id=1700355017635329&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif My snippet this week is from my … Continue reading

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“Candy Is Dandy.” Early Halloween for Friday Flash Fics from Mike Mayak (aka Jeff Baker.) October 20, 2023.

For a bit of Pre-Halloween romance, I turned this over to my pen-name Mike Mayak for this sequel to my story “Leader of the Laundromat.” https://authorjeffbaker.com/2023/05/05/meet-the-leader-of-the-laundromat-for-friday-flash-fics-by-mike-mayak-may-5th-2023/ What’s up with Mick and Justin? Some of my readers wanted to know! ——j … Continue reading

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“The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.” Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Story from Jeff Baker. October 14, 2023.

The Shot Heard Round the World by Jeff Baker Author’s Note: The draws for the October 2023 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were A Romance on the Interstate involving a Rusty Musket. Here’s what I came up with. The two forty-something … Continue reading

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Friday Flash Fics in a Beautiful Pea Green Boat by Jeff Baker, Friday October 13th, 2023.

Beautiful Pea-Green Boat by Jeff Baker It was late afternoon when Billy Delaware’s doorbell rang. The man who stood there was six-foot-one, a little bit of a gut, red hair and beard that were going white. Billy could see the … Continue reading

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“Slowly I Turned.” Friday Flash Fics for September 22, 2023 from Jeff Baker.

Slowly I Turned… by Jeff Baker They had heard the sound from outside, a rushing, steaming kind of noise in the middle of a summer afternoon. Sol Gribbs had stepped out of their house in an older suburb of town … Continue reading

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