Category Archives: Short-Stories

Running Fast With Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker. (Friday May 13, 2022)

Posted on May 13, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Running Fast By Jeff Baker The grass, trees and bushes were a blur as Jakeem clung tightly to the horse. How much further, he wondered? Beneath him, the horse Clyde was breathing hard. Jakeem wasn’t sure what was in the … Continue reading →

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Hear “The Rubaiyat of Joseph Zachary Barstow” for Friday Flash Fics. By Jeff Baker, May 6, 2022.

Posted on May 6, 2022 by jeffbaker307

The Rubaiyat of Joseph-Zachary Barstow (A Bryce Going Story) by Jeff Baker I first kissed a guy in public the day of the Bicentennial, July Fourth, Nineteen Seventy-Six. We thought we were alone. I had a job working at a … Continue reading →

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Angel Martinez reads an Unsettling “Arrangement” by Jeff Baker. April 29, 2022.

Posted on May 2, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Angel Martinez does a weekly Friday reading on her webpage. Here, she again reads one of my stories: “Arrangement In Black and Gray.” My serious thanks to Angel for her fine reading of this story! Here it is. Better turn … Continue reading →

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“Something Up in Barracuda Flats, Part Two.” Friday Flash Fics by Jeff Baker, April 30, 2022,

Posted on April 30, 2022 by jeffbaker307

FFF Something Up in Barracuda Flats Part Two by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: In part one of this serial,https://authorjeffbaker.com/2021/07/02/something-is-up-in-barracuda-flats-for-friday-flash-fics-july-2-2021-by-jeff-baker/ Murdoch has been called out to Barracuda Flats to investigate strange doings at a ranch. Very strange for the post-Civil War … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Snippet for April 23, 2022: “Ticklish Days,” by Skip Hanford.

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Every week we post six lines of a work of ours, or a recommendation of a work of someone else’s on “Rainbow Snippets,” here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets/?multi_permalinks=7233704850032848&notif_id=1650674708101991&notif_t=group_activity&ref=notif Something a little different, definitely PG-13 this week. From my (as “Skip Hanford”) science fiction/BDSM … Continue reading →

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Friday Flash Fics. “Up There” by Jeff Baker, April 23, 2022 (Yes, Saturday!)

Posted on April 23, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Up There by Jeff Baker It seemed the two of them were high enough at the top of the small hill to touch the emerging stars or to see them wobble in the wind which blew their grey hair. “I … Continue reading →

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Rainbow Snippet: “The Well-Lit Room” by Jeff Baker, April 15, 2022.

Posted on April 15, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Every week we post six lines of a work of ours, or a recommendation of a work of someone else’s on “Rainbow Snippets,” here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 This week, from something I just wrote and posted as my weekly story on “Friday … Continue reading →

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April 2022 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge—The Results!!! (from Jeff Baker)

Posted on April 11, 2022 by jeffbaker307

As you can see from the cards, I’m the current moderator for the Monthly Flash Fiction Draw Challenge, which was started by ‘Nathan Burgoine a few years ago and carried on by Cait Gordon and Jeffrey Ricker. It’s a monthly … Continue reading →

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“Will I Be Rich?” The Bells of Shoredich Chime for April’s Flash Fiction Draw Challenge by Jeff Baker (April 11, 2022)

Posted on April 11, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Will I Be Rich? Say The Bells of Shoredich by Jeff Baker AUTHOR’S NOTE: The draws for the April 2022 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge were A sports story, set in a piano factory involving a pair of handcuffs. I write … Continue reading →

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Everyone is Writing a Book. Friday Flash Fiction from Jeff Baker, April 8th, 2022

Posted on April 8, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Everyone Is Writing a Book by Jeff Baker It was the early spring of nineteen-seventy-five and I was trying to be a writer. I would park in Old Man Emmerdale’s lot in front of the store and then go into … Continue reading →

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