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Jo Freitag

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May Day Delayed

Weekly Contest #349

“’Ear ye! ‘Ear ye! Today is Friday the firty-onest of April!”“Oo sez?”“By order of ‘Is Majesty King Arfur of Camelot!” “What on earth is happening in the Fog Lake?” asked Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. Dagonet the Jester bounded in, juggling a stack of red and yellow balls. Jo, who had the ability to communicate with animals and fictional characters, repeated her question.“The town crier has just announced that today is April 31st instead of May 1st ”“Why?”“Becau...

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Too good to be human?

Weekly Contest #348

There was a dog fight happening in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies.Psycho Motor Dabrowski and Intellectual Dabrowski, the canine writing companions of Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence, were tumbling from room to room, in the cliché cartoon dog fight cartwheel. Occasionally they would pause the whirling to get their breath and trade another round of growled insults and paw slaps. Psycho Motor had reignited the Is Lancelot a Fairy? debate by stating that, in his opinion, he must be. A mere mortal would ...

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Hidden Research

Weekly Contest #347

Hidden Research“Have you been avoiding my Arthur’s calls and emails?” asked Regina Penman, Secretary of the ARC Arthurian Readers Club.“Well, yes” confessed Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. “I think I know what they are about and I don’t know what to do about it; so, I just have not returned his calls.”“Did you read the email?”“Yes. I know that when the ARC gave me the use of a research space in The Library that he was expecting that I would present a session about...

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If Badon Hill is 500AD, who is Erik the Boar?

Weekly Contest #345

“Who is this Erik the Boar?”“He is a leader of the Saxons at the Battle of Celidon.”“I have never heard of him. Do you mean Erik Bloodaxe? He was a 10th-century Viking king of Norway, who ruled Northumbria during the Anglo-Saxon period. He died in 954. He was sometimes referred to as The Old Boar. But he is not a contemporary of King Arthur. Arthur would never have encountered Erik Bloodaxe – wrong historical period altogether!” Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, had ...

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Allow Me to Demonstrate

Weekly Contest #343

“I can state unequivocably that Little Plump Jo did not cause The Glitch in the Fog Lake,” asserted Intellectual Dabrowski “and if you allow me five minutes I can demonstrate the reasoning for my belief using this ripple tank.”Intellectual Dabrowski was one of the five Dabrowski Dogs, the canine writing companions of Little Plump Jo, who was the current Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. Because dogs hear a different range of sounds the dogs were able to communicate not only with their mistress, ...

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The Beaux Ball

Weekly Contest #342

Portly Scribe Aforementioned was becoming frustrated with compiling the guest list for the next court ball at Camelot.The last chance dance (laast chaance daance, daaarling!) had been such a success that a second chance last chance dance (second chaance laast chaance daance daaarling!) had been held, which was also a great success. The dances led to many new relationships forming and long standing relationships being refreshed and strengthened. And it seemed that one of the main reasons for the success was that the dance was an occasion to r...

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Mordred

Weekly Contest #340

“I have come for a branding makeover.”“And who are you? And what do you think I could do for you? " Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, asked as she surveyed the scrawny young man in front of her.“You probably have never noticed me. People tend to overlook me all the time. They will regret doing it in the end! I want you to give me a character profile makeover, like you did for Elaine of Astolat. You turned her from a snivelling little ‘ooh I will just die, if I cannot...

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A Hammock in the Book Stacks

Weekly Contest #338

“They are Giant Schnoodles”Arthur and Regina Penman, President and Secretary respectively of the A.R.C. Arthurian Readers Club had arrived at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies with two huge grey dogs in the back of their car. The dogs had their heads out the windows, one on either side of the car. They looked for all the world like great grey stone gargoyles. They were greeted by Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence at Cloudbank Cabin. Jo loved dogs but she had never seen dogs like these.“Not my idea, you u...

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Six-Seven

Weekly Contest #337

Little Plump Jo had returned to Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies from her week away visiting family interstate. She spent the first day unpacking, doing three loads of washing, cleaning the cabin, catching up with emails and work projects, and taking several nana naps. And now it was time to get back to her writing.She was well aware that there was an expectation that she would use her time as Artisan in Residence at Cloudbank Cabin to produce something which would be worthy of being added to the extensive existing can...

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Five Poached Quail Eggs

Weekly Contest #333

Jester Dagonet was cartwheeling around in Little Plump Jo’s dreams again. Maybe she had eaten too much of that rich Christmas fare just before bedtime!“If you thought choc and cheese were sure to please And give you dreamings such as these” he sang“Wait, wait! Let me put a pawprint right there. You need a citation for that!” Now Intellectual Dabrowski, Little Plump Jo’s canine writing companion had also forced his way into the dream. He was insisting, as he always did, that Jo, in her position as Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cl...

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The Fog Lake Ferox

Weekly Contest #332

Regina Penman, the secretary of the ARC Arthurian Readers Club, blew in through the door of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, accompanied by a flurry of leaves. She pushed the door shut with her hip and stood leaning against it to get her breath back.“So, the climate is still not so ‘Camelot Perfect All the Year’. The wind was never like this in the past!” she observed.“We call it the Fog Lake Ferox” said Little Plump Jo, who was the current Artisan in Residence in Cloudbank Cabin. “They say we have only had winds this...

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The Wrath of Malory

Weekly Contest #326

Mimosa Minipas and her yappy handbag dog fled screaming from Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, pursued by a swarm of fairies – cute little fairies with spiky pink hair and big blue eyes, towering, menacing fairies with dark, dark eyes and coal black curls, and translucent fairies tripping on the hems of their papery gowns.It was completely dark inside Cloudbank Cabin except for the lights twinkling on the photocopier and the paper shredder, as if all the electricity in the place had been concentrated into the operation...

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Maybe It’s Malory

Weekly Contest #325

“Mimosa Minipas has won a Fantasy Short Story competition at the ARC Arthurian Readers Club. Her prize is a week’s stay at Cloudbank Cabin” Little Plump Jo told her five canine writing companions, the Dabrowski Dogs.“Regina Penman, the Secretary of the ARC sent me an email about it, asking me to welcome her and organize the room for her.”Little Plump Jo was the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. She had met Regina Penman when she attended the ARC Arthurian Readers Club Conference. Before ...

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A Kick in the Pantsers

Weekly Contest #324

“Still waters run deep, you know! She is probably just thinking and mentally outlining her next chapter.”“More like stagnant waters don’t flow and she is stuck in some sort of boggy plot hole without the inspiration, inclination or impetus to get herself out.”The five Dabrowski Dogs, Imaginational, Intellectual, Emotional, Sensual and Psycho Motor, were sitting in a semi-circle in front of their mistress, Little Plump Jo, peering anxiously at her.Little Plump Jo was the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Ar...

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What profits me my name?

Weekly Contest #322

Imaginational Dabrowski, the little Bedlington Terrier, was lazing on the couch in the lounge of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. His front paws were crossed one over the other in a decorative fashion. He was still wearing the collar of flowers he had sported at the previous day’s wedding of Jovial Janny Joiner from the Tavern to her beau, Dashing Danny Dubglas. Eyes closed and a blissful expression on his face, he was happily recalling the events of the day and envisioning a glowing future for the young couple.The fi...

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