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Jo Freitag

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Weekly Contest #367

“With huge apologies to A. A. Milne…” barked Border Collie, Intellectual Dabrowski, one of Little Plump Jo’s canine writing companions.Whatever’s the matter with Our Elaine?She is perfectly well and she hasn’t a painBut she’s acting all bratty, like Mary Jane!Oh, what is the matter with Our Elaine? Whatever’s the matter with Our Elaine?Her weaving is thriving; she’s winning again!But she’s weeping and wailing and going insane!Oh, what is the matter with Our Elaine? What is the matter with Our Elaine?She sponsored the Names and Backstories ca...

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Sufficient Unto the Iteration

Weekly Contest #366

”What is all the fuss in the Fog Lake today?” Little Plump Jo asked. “One of you go and get a copy of Proclamation Parchments. Maybe pick up Scandal Sheets as well!”As Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, Little Plump Jo felt she needed to be aware of what the Arthurian characters in the Fog Lake at the foot of Cloudbank Cabin were doing.Under normal circumstances the Arthurian characters reenacted the episodes of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur in a continuous loop, like a long running stage pl...

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Arthur and Regina

Weekly Contest #365

“You are such a perfect couple! How did you meet?” A typical dinner party question.“We met at work.” Our typical dinner party reply.But of course, there was more to the story! REGINA : I have been searching for my Sir Lancelot almost all my life. He first appeared in the bedtime stories my father, Leo De Grange, read to me as a child. Of course, those stories were sanitized. I only knew Sir Lancelot as a very handsome, very brave hero who went about killing dragons and saving damsels. And the damsel that he saved most often was Queen Guineve...

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Yor Darlings is dead

Weekly Contest #364

Yor Darlings was dead, lying covered in harsh red slash marks, in a pool of purple prose and printer ink, on the floor by the waste basket, beside the desk of Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies.But who was Yor Darlings? Why did they die? Who killed Yor Darlings? The Dabrowski Dogs, Little Plump Jo’s canine writing companions gathered around the body of work, their heads on one side, puzzled.Intellectual Dabrowski, the Border Collie, took control of the situation. “We n...

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Many a True Word Spoken in Jest

Weekly Contest #363

It was the day after the grand feast.The Fog Lake Ferox wind of the previous evening had blown itself out.Most of the Arthurian characters in the Fog Lake below Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian studies were still in their beds in recovery mode.Dagonet the Jester was one exception. He was sitting atop an upturned rock in the meadow beside the tournament arena, looking like a model for the Joker in a deck of playing cards.He was working on the material he would present when he entertained in The Tavern the following week. He was...

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Fog Lake Ferox Feast Time

Weekly Contest #362

“That wind is really getting up! I think we could make it home, if we leave now.”“It is not called the Fog Lake Ferox for no reason! I had a Road Weather Alert on my phone. I think you should stay here overnight. There are a few spare rooms and I am just about to make dinner.”“Well, if you are sure…”“I would love you to stay.”Arthur and Regina Penman, President and Secretary respectively of the ARC Arthurian Readers Club had spent the afternoon with Little Plump Jo, who was the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabi...

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The ARC Summer Session Conference Presentation

Weekly Contest #361

The first section of the presentation to the ARC Arthurian Readers Summer Session Conference had gone smoothly.L. P. J. White, aka Little Plump Jo, had delivered her material in a sufficiently formal, erudite manner. She had cited the sources for each of the references she had made. Her language had been precise, rather stilted in her own opinion.And the lean, stiff backed, grey-haired academics had nodded solemnly and approvingly. The fantasy fiction lovers fidgeted and squirmed on the hard seats and fanned themselves with their schedule bo...

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The Aforementioned Reunion

Weekly Contest #360

... in those days it was not the guise of hermits as is nowadays, for there were none hermits in those days but that they had been men of worship and of prowess; and those hermits held great household, and refreshed people that were in distress. Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d’Arthur When Portly Scribe Aforementioned’s girth reached the stage that he could no longer see his feet, he decided that he probably should try to remedy the situation. He assumed correctly that his waistline had been expanding steadily ever since he began feasting in Kin...

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The Dark, Dark Hole

Weekly Contest #359

The Sisyphus Rock Pusher was proving ineffective in the attempt to clear the huge cairn-like rock from the Tournament Arena in the Fog Lake at the foot of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies.The machine had been moved to the adjacent field, which would be the site of the new Tournament Arena, and was having much greater success there, overturning and shifting much smaller rocks.Regina Penman, Secretary of the ARC Arthurian Readers Club, which was the caretaker for Cloudbank Cabin, and Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan ...

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Save the Cat Spells Romance

Weekly Contest #358

Nobody who knew the old Elaine the Fair, Elaine the Lovely, the Lily Maid of Astolat from the Pre-Glitch iterations of the Fog Lake Arthurian Re-enactments would recognize her new persona, the Lady Charlotte-Elaine, Lady of Shalott, entrepreneur owner of Charlotte’s Web Weaving Patron of the Arts and Founder of the charitable organization, Red Sleeves Care Providers.In earlier Fog Lake re-enactments she had followed Malory Tennyson’s script authentically. She had obediently nursed Sir Lancelot du Lac for months on end, fallen in love with hi...

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Saint Sidekick’s Day

Weekly Contest #357

“Go, Donkey! Yay! That’s the way!” yelped the little Bedlington Terrier, Imaginational Dabrowski. He was gazing at piles of clouds, which to him resembled a scrawny donkey dealing a powerful double-barreled kick of the hind legs to the flank of a dark, menacing war-horse.Imaginational cuddled up to his mistress, Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies and smiled dreamily.“Did you see that? It was like Donkey from the Shrek films. And he was beating the bad guy himself, not ...

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To My Here Is In Perpy Something

Weekly Contest #356

“What is that, Psycho? Give it to me. Give!”“No Psycho, I am not going to chase you. Drop it now!”Psycho Motor Dabrowski had just bolted in through the door of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies with what appeared to be a scabbard in his mouth and was now refusing to hand it over to his mistress, Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in the cabin.“What is that? Where did you get it?”Psycho Motor could not pretend to misunderstand Jo, who had the ability to communicate with animals and fictional characters. He...

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The Ditch The Glitch Symposium

Weekly Contest #353

“Hear ye! Hear ye! A Symposium into remedial actions for The Glitch in The Fog Lake will be held in two weeks’ time. Be prepared to come with your solutions. More details to follow.”“Is that something we should attend?” asked Little Plump Jo, who was the current Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. The cabin was perched above the Fog Lake, in which the characters of the Arthurian legends reenacted their stories in a continuous loop of iterations. Over the centuries many authors, poets, playwrights,...

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Sensual Dabrowski knows

Weekly Contest #352

“You must include the smell, taste and sound of colours” stated Sensual Dabrowski.“AND colours” corrected Intellectual Dabrowski firmly, with a dismissive wave of his paw. “Yes, that as well. But at present we are considering the use of colons, semi-colons, em dashes and Little Plump Jo’s rather confusing use of dot, dot, dot.”“No OF colours. I do mean OF colours. And it is of vital importance to recognize it in the context of this story!”It was another editing session in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. The ARC Arthu...

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Imaginational Dabrowski’s Book of Imaginal Musings

Weekly Contest #351

Little Plump Jo loved ordering stationery and art supplies online. As Artisan in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, she regularly needed to order boxes of paper and inks for her printer and folders and crates for storing her works. And she always liked to add in a pretty notebook. It was a treat she could afford to give herself. Attractive notebooks were also a treat that other people could afford to give Jo for birthday, Christmas, Secret Santa and thank you gifts. Jo had gathered so many notebooks that sh...

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