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Jo Freitag

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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Poatina Shelter

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #300

I would like to acknowledge the people who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I write today; on the border of the Big River and Stoney Creek nations.I respect and value their thousands of years of creativity and their care for the land.I appreciate their artists and storytellers.I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.The name of our village, Poatina, means cave or shelter. It lies in the shelter of the foothills of The Great Western Tiers mountain range. For many thousands of years the people of the Ty...

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The Jester’s Tale

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #299

Chocolate and cheese Are sure to please The maddest dreams Are made of theseThere was Dagonet, King Arthur’s jester, cartwheeling around the room while balancing a platter of cheese and chocolate and singing!Little Plump Jo had always been subject to vivid dreams. Sometimes she could remember them in detail; but mostly they vanished at the call of the alarm clock. Sometimes they were scary, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes amusing.Often her dreams were based on incidences of the previous day or solving problems in her current life situatio...

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The Scarlet Sleeve.

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #299

At Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence and her writing and editing companions, the five overexcitable Dabrowski Dogs were watching from the porch as a scene unfolded in the Fog Lake.Lancelot was talking to Elaine“I was thinking about you the other day,”“Were you?”“Yes, I was resting after the land dispute tourney and a little white dog, who looked like a lamb, came and sat on the bed beside me.“That was me!” Imaginational Dabrowski announced to the Porch Watchers . “I was...

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The All New Elaine

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #298

Lady Charlotte-Elaine of Shalott, formerly known as Elaine the Fair, Elaine the Lovely, the Lily Maid of Astolat was still not content with her new role. She had taken advantage of Little Plump Jo (the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies) and her inept storytelling to escape from the duty of nursing Sir Lancelot du Lac for months and then having to die when he refused to return her love. Heather Dale had sung it so well With trembling hands I held your life inside you But failed to earn y...

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The Eleventh Hour

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #297

Those who wait to repent until the eleventh hour often die at ten thirty. What time is it now? Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies had fallen asleep sitting up on her couch, early in the evening after a very busy day, She was wakened by Imaginational Dabrowski, one of her five overexcitable Dabrowski Dog canine writing companions, who was tugging at the rug over her legs and barking urgently. “Wake up! Wake up! Sir Bors is here arguing with Malory Tennyson. He wants to ...

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Who, when, where?

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #296

Lancelot, King’s Son, Galahad, Red Knight, Black Knight, Le Chevalier Malfait, Jenner Sapper – whoever he was supposed to be at this particular present moment – was pacing in the writing room of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. There was not much room to pace – five steps – turn- five steps- turn. The fifth step in one direction inevitably brought him to the window. And every time he reached it he felt a strong urge to climb over the bookshelf and exit the cabin through that window. Of course it would be much simpler ...

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Clouds and Fog

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #295

To most people clouds are just clouds and fog is just a nuisance.But for Artisans in Residence at Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, the Cloudbank and the Fog Lake can hold great significance.There are prompting hints to be found scattered around the cabin; from the ‘Clouds in my coffee’ cloud pictures on the mugs, to the cloud pictures on the pens in the jar on the writing desk, to the picture titled Cloud Camelot with its exhortation to ‘Search the clouds’.Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence, was no stra...

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Proclamation Parchments and Scandal Sheets

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #294

Not even Malory Tennyson knew what was in the wooden box in the back room of his Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. And not even Sir Lancelot du Lac had been daring enough to open it. Lancelot had very unpleasant memories of the macabre contents of a very similar box he had cleared out from the vault in the Dolorous Tower after he defeated its evil overlord, who practiced the black arts.But Psycho Motor Dabrowski, one of the five overexcitable Dabrowski Dog companions of Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Cloudbank Cabi...

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Little Plump Jo is on the Go

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #293

Little Plump Jo was taking a short vacation - a few days away from Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, where she was the current Artisan in Residence. Malory himself had suggested the holiday. He had another writer coming to Cloudbank Cabin for a few days in order to do a final editing of a version of the Tristan and Isolde story. The writer was a stickler for adhering to the conventional storylines. And Malory was concerned that they would be distracted by Jo talking to herself and her internal editors, the five ov...

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Don’t Rock the Boat

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #292

Intellectual Dabrowski was in his element! As the self-appointed Alpha dog of the pack of five Dabrowski Dogs, Intellectual was barking out orders to all the residents of Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies. And as self-appointed researcher for Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in the cabin, he was rounding up searches, references and citations at lightning speed.This particular search had begun because Little Plump Jo wanted an illustration to attach to the profile she was building for her character, Elai...

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Free One Week Trial

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #291

Free one week trial New character development tool with relatability/likeability measure and 3D printout. Recommended by all top 10 Future Unknowns authors. ‘So good I bought the company’ ~ I. Wright“Ooh, ooh! You must get it!” yelped Psycho Motor Dabrowski, one of the five Dabrowski Dogs, the overexcitable canine companions of Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies.“Well, I. Wright is one of my favourite authors. If they recommend it, I would like to try it” replied Jo. “...

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Faith unfaithful falsely true.

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #290

Possible sensitive content: unrequited love leading to deathValentines Day was always hard on Emotional Dabrowski. There were so many intense vibrations of feelings swirling around her. She was tuning in to feelings ranging from wistful distant hero worship to cautious steps toward deeper connection, through to intense joyful intimacy. But also, she was tuning in to the feelings of despair of unrecognized and unrequited regard.Emotional Dabrowski was an English Springer Spaniel, one of the five overexcitable Dabrowski Dogs, the canine compan...

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Tilting at Wind Farms

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #288

The climate must be perfect all the yearWell, that might be true of Camelot, but it was definitely not true of Cloudbank Cabin, in The Land of Lost Plot. Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, was sweltering in the first heat wave of the summer. The small ceiling fan was merely pushing the hot air around the room. Even the flies on the windowsill were panting and fanning themselves.Today Little Plump Jo intended to continue working on The Shadow of the Many Mooded Mounta...

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Pot of Tea

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #287

Plot-hole… Pothole… Potty… Pot of tea…Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, had written herself into a plot hole again. Her five overexcitable canine companions, the Dabrowski Dogs, offered their opinions and suggested solutions.“Plot-hole… Pothole… Potty… Pot of tea…” chanted Sensual Dabrowski, who as well as trying to ensure that Jo included details about colours, textures, smells and sounds in her writing, also insisted on monitoring Jo’s personal comfort and wellbein...

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Compacting lives

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #286

“Explain to me why we must do this again!” said Lancelot. “I did not see the point of doing it last time and it will keep me from working on my Hero’s To Do List!” “Well, I think it is fun!” replied Elaine. “But this time I want a larger case.”Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin for Arthurian Studies, had required her main characters to condense the expanse of their lives into portable packages to show a potted history of their lives back in November 2022, in reply to a NaNoWriMo prompt. And...

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