Category Archives: Science Fiction

Visit The Wild Things (And Demeter’s Bar!) Friday Flash Fics From Jeff Baker. August 16, 2024

Posted on August 16, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Where The Wild Things Are (A Demeter’s Bar Story) By Jeff Baker Roger Hulot and his husband Paolo were the only customers in Demeter’s Bar that summer afternoon. The fifty-somethings sat at the table Roger sipping a glass of Merlot, … Continue reading →

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The Chicken Queen Hits Gotha…I Mean Goat’s Town. Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. July 26, 2024.

Posted on July 26, 2024 by jeffbaker307

The Chicken’s Big Cluck/Flat Out Of Luck by Jeff Baker The dead of night at Liverwurst Labs at the edge of Goat’s Town. Home to the nation’s preeminent scientists and their cutting edge discoveries. But what’s this? Two familiar figures … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Snippets At The Continental Divide. (Sounds like a Fellini Western!) from Jeff Baker. July 19th, 2024.

Posted on July 19, 2024 by jeffbaker307

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 The prompt pic (above) was one … Continue reading →

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Continental Divide. Welcome Back Friday Flash Fics For June 21st, 2024 (by Jeff Baker.)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by jeffbaker307

It’s been almost a month, but we’re back! Here’s this week’s story! —–jeff Continental Divide by Jeff Baker It was Bay Day so Dad/Mom let me cut school but that didn’t stop him/her from spouting out a few lessons on … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 29, 2024 by jeffbaker307

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

Posted on May 10, 2024 by jeffbaker307

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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“The Hencha Queen.” J. Scott Coatsworth’s New Book Is Out Today! (March 14th, 2024.)

Posted on March 14, 2024 by jeffbaker307

My friend J. Scott Coatsworth is releasing Book Three in his Tharassas Cycle: “The Hencha Queen” blends science fiction, fantasy, epic worldbuilding and LGBT characters. Scott’s work has led to comparisons to Tolkien and Heinlein. But I should let him … Continue reading →

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Run “The Last Twenty-Four” with Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker. March 8th, 2024.

Posted on March 8, 2024 by jeffbaker307

The Last Twenty Four by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: This one was written when I realized my initial idea for a story would be too long and I could try to send it to an anthology or magazine! The story … Continue reading →

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“One Day In The Old Kingdom” Friday Flash Fics for March 1st, 2024 by Jeff Baker.

Posted on March 2, 2024 by jeffbaker307

One Day In The Old Kingdom by Jeff Baker “You can see a lot from up here,” I said. It wasn’t my first day on the job, but I’d never been on top of the Community Facility Building. Some people … Continue reading →

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“Snow Day!” Friday Flash Fics from Jeff Baker for Friday December 8th, 2023.

Posted on December 8, 2023 by jeffbaker307

AUTHOR’S NOTE: My apologies to followers of Facebook’s Friday Flash Fics page. I either forgot to post this picture there or it got deleted! ——jeff Snow Day by Jeff Baker This all happened about seventeen years ago when I was … Continue reading →

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