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Get Lost with Rainbow Snippets! “Office Of the Lost,” from J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding. June 6th, 2025.

Every week we post six lines from a work of ours, a work in progress or part of someone else’s work with LGBT characters at Rainbow Snippets, here https://www.facebook.com/groups/963484217054974 ` For Pride Month I’m posting snippets from “Office Of the … Continue reading

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Henry Kuttner and Others! Jeff Baker’s March/April 2025 Reading Report. (April 21, 2025)

A Henry Kuttner-heavy Reading Report for March/April 2025 Read “Food For Thought” by Felice Picano who had died a week earlier. It’s in is collection “Tales From A Distant Planet.” The story plays like an episode of the original “Star … Continue reading

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Progress Report: November/December 2024 from Jeff Baker. December 20, 2024.

Progress Report: November/December 2024 Not a lot on the progress front, other than the usual flash fictions and my end-of-the-year stuff. Did some synopsizing and playing around with ideas. Wrote one column and started a couple of others. Didn’t really … Continue reading

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“Rubber Boogie Bugga Burpers…” Uh, The Flash Fiction Draw Challenge Draws for December 2024, from Mike Mayak. (December 2, 2024.)

First, here’s the prompts for the December 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge, the last one of the year! Then my usual long-winded explanation: A Romance Involving Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Set in A Haunted House Now, on to the details. … Continue reading

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Progress Report, August/September 2024 from Jeff Baker. September 21, 2024.

Progress Report for August/September 2024 Again, not too much progress. Wrote the usual flash fiction stories and did a QSF column when a subject for it came up. Plotted out a couple of stories and started writing them up. (handwriting … Continue reading

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Progress Report For July/August 2024 from Jeff Baker. (August 21, 2024.)

Photo By Amy Tharp Progress Report for July/August 2024 from Jeff Baker Okay, not much progress to report this month either. I didn’t work on “Love’s Not Time’s Fool,” writing-wise anyway but I proofread it and did a couple of … Continue reading

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Progress Report from Jeff Baker for October, 2023. (October 21, 2023.)

Photo by Amy Tharp First Off: I’ve actually been reading! I’ve gotten to where I have to push myself to do that, but I have! In the last month I’ve read a couple of the stories in James Moran’s “Fear … Continue reading

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Rainbow Snippets Has “Nose Against the Wall.” (And NSFW!) From Skip Hanford, August 13, 2023.

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 This one’s an oldie. And unfinished. … Continue reading

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Friday Flash Fics: Nights In White Satin, by Mike Mayak (A.K.A. Jeff Baker)

Nights In White Satin by Mike Mayak “What does this remind you of?” Sam asked, stretching back in the big chair on the cool evening porch. “Back when this was Grandma and Grandpa’s house,” Scotty said, sipping his lemonade with … Continue reading

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“Make Me Immortal…” A New Story of Mine Posted on RoMMantic Reads. Jeff Baker, June 17, 2023.

Fiona Glass has done me the kindness of posting my latest story on the RoMMantic Reads zine. “Make Me Immortal With a Kiss” is, I admit, something of a wish-fulfillment fantasy but it felt good to write. Here it is: … Continue reading

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