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"“Ain’t That Quaint?”"
Diana Diehl completes her hat trick and presents her third story. A square jaw is sign of will power, it’s said. Especially if it runs in the family.
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Special Delivery
Herbert paced outside the delivery room. There had been complications. He could barely control his anxiety, unable to help his [...]
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Peggy Dobbs bows out with entry number three for our contest. Here, she brings her triplicity of entries to a close, with a poignant take on, ‘Barbers Are Always Bald.’
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THE INHERITANCE
Staring at the light, muted by the hotel’s ragged torn window shades, Alex watched as a much needed [...]
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Tom Swoffer brings his triplicity of entries to a close, with a tale of tension and passion that reminds us, ‘New Yorkers Are Always On.’
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Rendezvous At The Food Court
He sat at a plastic table in the mall’s food court. Just another anonymous shopper among hundreds of harried housewives [...]
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Dave P Fisher rounds off a trio of tales, with his final entry, recalling that, ‘winters were longer and snow was heavier twenty years ago.’ And every family has a cold snap before the thaw.
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The Snow Was Heavier
Sarah and John stared out the window fascinated by the silver-dollar-size [...]
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Rose Fisher sits among us at our virtual campfire, with the first of her three entries. This one reminds us that, ‘Barking dogs don’t bite.’ At least, that’s what they used to say, back in 1929.
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Barking Dogs
Groaning, Jalin grabbed the pillow and jammed it over his head. It [...]
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We welcome the enigmatically named Zen West to our fold, with the first of three entries. This one basks in the light of, ‘A square jaw is a sign of will power.’
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Swain
The atmosphere was too much. We were in San Francisco but the courtyard was so [...]
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Here’s Sean Manzano’s third and final standalone story, wrapped around the 1929 truth kernel that, ‘A square jaw is a sign of will power.’ And will power takes many forms…
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Meryl Streep plays the mother I hate.
New York City’s Joanna Kramer abandons her [...]
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As promised, here’s Sean Manzano’s second standalone story, also themed around, ‘A square jaw is a sign of will power.’ The last in the trilogy will follow today.
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Rebel with a Cause
My father’s James Dean square jaw leads the charge, grazes my shoulder, a whirl of sand [...]
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Something a little different for you here. Sean Manzano has created three different standalone stories, around, ‘A square jaw is a sign of will power.’ As they’re also inter-related, we’ve posted all three today so you don’t lose the thread. So don’t say we never think of you!
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Simon Says
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Jennifer Hughes is a new addition to our writing family. Here, she shares a tale based around that 1929 pearl of received wisdom, ‘Barking dogs don’t bite.’
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Barking dogs don’t bite.
Barking dogs don’t bite. I know this for a fact, as the last dog that attempted to bite me [...]
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Jaclyn Tedesco comes to the table with the first of three submissions to our contest, based upon the premise that, ‘Winters were longer and the snow was heavier twenty years ago.’
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A Walk In Time
It was a typical Monday morning around the Fuller house; showers taking way too long, [...]
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Diane Broyles steps up to the showcase with her first entry, a fiendish power struggle inspired by, ‘A Square Jaw is a Sign of Will Power.’ Let battle commence!
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A Matter of Principal
Okay, so I admit I’m not the most well-behaved boy. I love fun but I [...]
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Sean McCandless has brandished his brush to bring you an arty contribution, based around, ‘Artists make Poor Businessmen.’ This is the first of his three entries.
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He dreamt of Vincent
On his nightstand were two books, a flashlight, a picture of his Grandmother, a radio (not a clock [...]
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Anthony Davi has opted for a tale of law and order, in his mature take on, ‘Policemen are never around when you want them.’
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Our Neighborhood
I walk by this liquor store daily on my way to school. The store resides in the building next door to our [...]
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Kelly Flowers has chosen, for her second contest entry, ‘A Square Jaw is a Sign of Will Power.’ In the eternal struggle between Man and Nature, sometimes it needs a Woman’s touch to even the odds.
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A Strong Jaw
As though someone is stirring beneath a blanket, the [...]
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Liam O’Brien brings us his final entry to our Ain’t That Quaint contest, and takes as his inspiration, ‘Barbers Are Always Bald.’ But there’s always something going on beneath the skin.
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Dandelion Season
It was dandelion season when my papa left us. Not many dandelions in our garden—he was too [...]
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Mr Dylan “Shaggy” Thompson feels the beat, yes he does. And he’s bringing it here to you, as his interpretation of that 1929 classic, ‘Drowning people always rise several times before sinking finally.’ Just dive in.
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Mosh
(One frank conversation about the drowning; particularly the art of drowning.)
The metallic [...]
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Here, Loicia Ware concludes her trilogy of entries in our contest, with her final salute to that snoozy truism, ‘One hour’s sleep before midnight is better than two afterward.’ And it tastes better than camomile tea.
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The Need for Sleep
When I was in was in college there was a [...]
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Emily Miner has sent in jus the one entry, based on that sturdy 1929 truism, ‘A Square jaw is sign of Will Power.’ We welcome her to our community of wordsmithery and hope to see her entering future contests (see bottom of this posting).
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The Rules
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“Life [...]
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Frances C. O’Connor joins our hallowed halls with this, her first of three entries in our Ain’t It Quaint contest. Frances shares a succinct, first person tale of growing up in 1956 with a 1929 sensibility, ‘Shaving Makes The Hair Grow Faster.’
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Shaving Makes The Hair Grow Faster
When I [...]
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