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Jo Freitag

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2024

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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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Imaginational Dabrowski steps up

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #285

Write a story in which someone time-travels 25 years or more into the past.“That’s the prompt? Time travel! That is my specialty! Where do you want to go and when?”That was Imaginational Dabrowski, the cute little Bedlington Terrier, who is one of the five canine companion editors for Little Plump Jo, the current Artisan in Residence in Malory Tennyson’s Cloudbank Cabin.There is debate about the level of reality of the Dabrowski Dogs. Some consider them to be literal dogs; others understand them as personifications of Dabrowski’s overexcitab...

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The Evening before the Tournament for the Ninth Diamond

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #284

Whenever the Royal Weaving Expo was held in the vicinity of Astolat, Lady Charlotte-Elaine of Shalott stayed in her childhood home; and it was always an occasion for a special banquet with roasted meats and the best vintage served and minstrel entertainment provided. Bernard of Astolat missed the company of his Lily Maid, Elaine, since she had moved to The Tower on the Island of Shalott. Elaine had found a plot loophole to escape from her recurring tale of nursing Sir Lancelot du Lac for months on end, falling in love with him and then dyin...

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Elaine Version 2

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #283

Elaine the Fair, Elaine the Lovely, the Lily Maid of Astolat had taken the opportunity to make her escape from the tragic tale of her unrequited love of Sir Lancelot du Lac.She was now choosing her own adventure as The Lady Charlotte Elaine of Shalott, entrepreneur owner of Charlotte’s Web Weaving. Elaine found that life in the studio apartment of Shalott Tower was not as she had imagined it would be.She realised that, in order to finance the upkeep of the place, she would need to weave steadily day and night, leaving her no time for so...

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And again

Jo Freitag

Submitted to Contest #282

“This is all your fault!” Sir Bors yelled, looking up at Cloudbank Cabin and shaking his fist. “You people up there in the cabin! Every time someone writes this story, we are all forced to re-enact it.” Malory Tennyson had been the custodian of Cloudbank Cabin, which nestled on the shore of the Fog Lake, at the foot of the Many Mooded Mountain, for hundreds of years. He had seen a steady stream of authors, artists, and creatives coming to the cabin for their retreats. When the Light and the atmospheric conditions played with the mystical lan...

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