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diamonds a a boat in hudson bay 2 an abandoned prison 3 a mexican restaurant 4 the golden gate bridge 5 an egyptian pyramid 6 a roller coaster 7 a chapel 8 a skating rink 9 an abandoned highway 10 a stable j a church steeple q a walk in freezer k the bottom of the ocean posted in nathan burgoine cait gordon jeffrey ricker monthly flash fiction draw challenge leave a comment cardula and the locked rooms jack ritchie mysteries reviewed by jeff baker may 4 2026 posted on may 4 2026 by jeffbaker307 cardula and the locked rooms the fine collection of jack ritchie s crime and mystery stories featuring his private eye character cardula is out now from crippen landru and it is well worth the wait featuring all of ritchie s stories about the p i who prefers to be a night stalker of the dark shadows cardula narrates the tales in the first person with plenty of ritchie s trademark humor ritchie never reveals much about his p i protagonist but drops some broad and clever hints such as this from the return of cardula i had arrived at my office at nine p m i closed the window against the night air hung up my cape and proceeded to unlock the door to my waiting room the first of the stories kid cardula which opens the collection is not narrated by cardula nor is he a private investigator cardula needing money is an aspiring boxer and the tale is told by manny the promoter to whom the vam i mean the boxer presents himself like the rest of the stories in the series it is great fun the collection is rounded out with several more of ritchie s fine stories these featuring seemingly impossible crimes including one with his other series detective henry turnbuckle longtime milwaukee residents will probably recognize city landmarks and streets scattered throughout the book ritchie was a lifelong resident of the city add to this a wonderfully informative introduction about ritchie his career and the stories by the book s editor brian skupin and the cover illustration by joshua luboski which leaves little doubt that cardula is not a man to be trifled with oh hell just get the book read it enjoy it it s jack ritchie like his character cardula a man of singular power end here s a link to crippen landru https crippen and landru myshopify com products cardula and the locked rooms posted in books crippen and landru fiction mystery short stories vampires leave a comment river road by john m floyd reviewed by jeff baker may 3 2026 posted on may 3 2026 by jeffbaker307 john m floyd s mystery short story collection river road and other mystery stories crippen and landru 2025 features seventeen enthralling mysteries mostly of the ellery queen edward d hoch variety meaning fairly clued whodunit puzzle stories more often than not featuring southern settings john floyd is a mississippi writer after all and realistic characters floyd s detectives are appealing sheriff ray douglas operates in a very finely drawn locale pine county mississippi private eye tom langford s setting is a bit more urban both of them are aided and abetted by female allies sheriff douglas sometimes girlfriend jennifer parker and langford s fiancee debra jo d j wells characterizations of our main characters especially feel real human and identifiable with the sort of people the reader would know floyd s locations are perfectly described readers can see hear smell and feel the dusty roads country stores and other places his detectives explore and crimes occur floyd s descriptions and dialogue are masterful and a lot of fun to read workwise i try to stay on the correct side of the blurry line between right and wrong and i am neither well known nor powerful and she was one of those folks who could probably assemble a parachute within thirty seconds and give you all the specifics on air density and rate of descent and then forget to put it on before she jumped out of the plane after two groupings of stories featuring douglas and langford the final grouping of stories in the book takes readers to locales as varied as wyoming arizona and even the wild west of an earlier century in short john floyd s river road is an entertaining collection actually floyd s seventh collection of short stories and a must have for any mystery reader end here s a link to the crippen and landru website https crippen and landru myshopify com products river road and other mystery stories posted in books crippen and landru john m floyd mystery reviews short stories leave a comment upwardly mobile friday flash fics for friday may 1 2026 from jeff baker may 1 2026 posted on may 1 2026 by jeffbaker307 upwardly mobile by jeff baker oh crap alonso said there goes another one the two men stood in the supermarket parking lot and watched as a beam of white light from the sky lifted up one of the parked cars and took it away glad it wasn t mine edward said hey yours is an old junker alonso said besides it s still in the shop isn t it yeah edward said hey thanks for the lift anyway anytime alonso said the aliens had arrived several months before they had established little contact and their ships hadn t landed they broadcast a message to the governments of earth that earth was in the section of space that they owned and they were borrowing things mainly unoccupied cars it s like a bad snl sketch edward s dad had said they have arrived and they want our cars so far nobody had figured out why looks like yours is still here edward said pushing the shopping cart as alonso fished his key out of his pocket and clicked open the trunk yeah alonso said as they started loading the trunk with grocery bags hey somebody on npr said most of the cars are being taken from public lots not from people s driveways tell that to my neighbor edward said she says space people took her car from her driveway last week i think it was repoed they slammed the trunk shut hey thanks again for watch out edward said an intense white beam of light shot down from the sky in another moment the empty shopping cart rose into the air and soon disappeared into the clouds alonso and edward stared up after the vanished cart looks like the store s not getting that one back edwardo said hey i bet the aliens are bored teenagers alonso said end posted in fiction friday flash fics friday flash fictions science fiction short stories leave a comment i shall try to keep it all the year friday flash fics from jeff baker april 25 2026 posted on april 25 2026 by jeffbaker307 i shall try to keep it all the year by jeff baker i can t believe this marty roths said i ve been working for the city for almost twenty five years and we ve never forgotten to do this hey it was the holiday season and we got busy zander black said as he steered the pickup truck with city of dartagnan emblazoned on the side inside an outline of the state of kansas it s not like nobody ever goes down this street marty said hell i used to live right near here remember how small dartagnan is zander said every street is right near here the truck turned at the edge of downtown where there were several empty warehouses and the flower shop and the street sign elbridge gerry street elbridge gerry marty said when i was real little i wondered why there was no bridge on elbridge gerry street i wondered why someone would name their kid that zander said hey there it is pressed up against a small building that had been a liquor store and was now a bakery was a light pole attached to the metal pole on top that extended the light over the street was an outline of two striped candy canes with a christmas bow wrapped around them metal lines and christmas tree bulbs when it was turned on the decoration was all festive bright reds and greens now it was a dark silhouette against the blue april sky yup marty said we left this one up for four months too bad the lights weren t turned on after dark anymore would have looked really pretty for springtime zander said the colors would have gone well with the flowers in the yards marty said you got the ladder i hope zander said opening the truck door and climbing out maybe some good came out of this marty said maybe people saw this and it reminded them why we celebrate christmas yeah zander said looking for the ladder in the back of the truck remember the line from near the end of a christmas carol marty said scrooge says something like i shall honor christmas in my heart i shall try to keep it all the year maybe this decoration did something like that for somebody zander walked the ladder over to the pole there s a line in there about tiny tim hoping people who saw him would be reminded of the man who made lame men walk and blind men see marty stopped and stared i didn t know you read that book i didn t know you even read anything i m multi faceted zander said comes from growing up in a town with a literary name they leaned the ladder against the building right next to the light pole and steadied it did we really forget to take this one down zander asked with a smile marty just smiled and said nothing end author s note we met zander and marty in my christmas story zander and marty s advent calendar a couple of years ago https authorjeffbaker com 2024 12 05 zander marty and advent friday flash fics by jeff baker december 6th 2024 this is sort of an april christmas story oh and dickens a christmas carol is one of my favorite books if you haven t read it you should jeff posted in charles dickens christmas d artagnan kansas fiction friday flash fics friday flash fictions short stories zander and marty leave a comment reading report for march april 2026 from jeff baker posted on april 20 2026 by jeffbaker307 reading report march april 2026 read rudyard kipling s a matter of fact gripping with the power to scare the bejabbers out of a reader with its descriptions but it really isn t about horror from kipling s science fiction edited by john brunner also read kipling s story wireless in the brunner edited book more fantasy than sci fi but the glimpses of early wireless telegraphy and a nineteenth century british chemist s shop were interesting started reading the flying stingaree by john blaine a ya mystery novel about rick brandt from around the time of the ken holt mystery series i got this one because holt supposedly gets a cameo read the first three chapters lots of fun lots of detail about boating crabbing and stingarees aka stingrays oh yeah and a man may have been kidnapped by a flying saucer read the good neighbors by edgar pangborn first pangborn i d ever read satirical and sad at the same time started reading the riddle of the stone elephant the second ya mystery novel about ken holt by bruce campbell i think i know what s gong on sort of an impossible crime thingie and the clues are there and i spotted them for henry kuttner s april 7th birthday i finally started reading the dark world the novella that was influential on among others roger zelazny also started reading kuttner s the land of the earthquake both of them were novellas novels originally published in startling stories magazine i have a bunch of kuttner s startling stuff and am planning to read all of them that i can kuttner is just that good read lord dunsany s why the milkman shudders when he perceives the dawn which he apparently wrote to spoof his own style that s according to a charming account of a public reading by dunsany by h p lovecraft who was there listened to two other dunsanay stories on audio the sword of welleran an influential sword and sorcery story i m surprised i hadn t read before the elegant prose almost overshadowed the story and listened to dunsany s miss cubbidge and the dragon of romance the ending was probably funnier than back when the story was written started reading from lawrence watt evans new collection remembrance of things to come read paul is dead fun and i didn t see the ending coming read to see the new jerusalem read his poem when i see rigel s light sleeting through the side of heinlein station yes i read the fine weekly offerings by kaje harper and the monthly story by e h timms i stumbled across one of those gothic fiction collections this one of time travel stories which has f anstey s tourmalin s time cheques sort of a daft love boat story with time travel i started in on it and will finish it in time for next month s report i started bumming through a horror fantasy anthology i m reading to review for my queer sci fi column on that more later and my grandniece was reading the dr seuss book mr brown can moo can you so i read it too i d never read it before a fun book teaching kids about sounds moo jeff baker april 20 2026 posted in c l moore henry slesar lord dunsany leave a comment here s my april 2026 progress report jeff baker posted on april 20 2026 by jeffbaker307 progress report march april 2026 sloughed off a little on the four pages a day thing but i did keep up the writing wrote finished about six short stories mostly the weekly monthly flash fiction stories wrote a petrarchan sonnet as an homage to the turkey at central and greenwich in wichita who has apparently died was just going to do a poem but the sonnet idea hit me doesn t rhyme but what the hey yes this was a real bird who made the intersection and the shops around it his own got a queer sci fi column about done and started another one i like having several month s worth of columns already written and i m behind on that sent off at least one story to a market and i got at least one other story rejected as i have said before that s all progress too the big news is that i am simultaneously working on two novelette novella length stories the ya sci fi story which could become a short novel which has it s origins in an idea from forty years ago that i talked about in last period s report and a definitely not ya semi erotic romance whose idea just banged into my head a few weeks ago making progress on both of them at the same time something i didn t used to do and the ya sci fi story is approaching being finished i just have to pull some sections together and write more on the middle and i ll have a first draft that one is definitely novella length again whew and that s about it for now jeff baker april 20 2026 posted in progress reports writing leave a comment on vacation with rainbow snippets from jeff baker april 18 2026 posted on april 18 2026 by jeffbaker307 photo by igor passchier on pexels com every week at rainbow snippets https www facebook com groups rainbowsnippets participants post six lines of a work of theirs a work in progress or a work by someone else that has lgbt characters like in my recent flash fiction story on vacation https authorjeffbaker com 2026 04 17 go on vacation with friday flash fics from jeff baker april 17 2026 here we meet happily married dave and liam driving on a canadian highway with their kids shane and jax in the back seat hey dad jax said from the back seat how long till we get there not as long as it was last time you asked dave said from behind the wheel it s worth i...