Jazz Age Wednesdays 16 ― Champagne Tidbit from Murder at the Bijou

Thanks for another intriguing peek into the Murder at the Bijou — Three Ingredients I. I loved it!

Jazz Age Wednesdays 15 ― Pip’s Lemony Christmas

Great Christmas Story Teagan, hope you are making your own party this holiday season.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Hello, everyone! It’s Jazz Age Wednesdays here at Teagan’s Books. I know how busy you must be at this time of year, so I’m even happier to see you.

These midweek posts have been a mix of new and re-shared vignettes. Since several of you sheiks and shebas are new here, I hope no one minds that I’m doing a repeat of my story from a year ago. As for the “Pip-verse” time-line, this one happens after Pip’s adventures in The Three Things Serial Story: A Little 1920s Story but before she went to Savanna to live with Granny Phanny.

Pip’s Lemon Christmas

Pip Christmas Frame Green It had been a grand and glorious year. However, it pos-i-lute-ly had ups and downs. At that moment I was in one of the downs. Even the long distance telephone call from my best friend Mona failed (miserably I might…

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Thistledown – Midsummer Bedlam 16 — Glitter and Glare

Thistledown – Midsummer Bedlam 15 — Hummers, Hair, and Hanks

I surmise the little fairy is living up to her name. Wonderful episode can't wait to see where this leads.

Jazz Age Wednesdays 13 ― Pip and the River Monster

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Hey Sheiks and Shebas, I’m pos-i-lutely happy to see you at Jazz Age Wednesdays again!

Early Lucille 3 copy Young Lucille Ball

I started this short story back when I did a collaborative post with author John W. Howell*. The three things driving that story were “Counterfeiting, Time, and Hollywood.” The ultimate result was In the Pip of Time, which you saw here.

Like I was saying, that was when this story started, but not when I finished it. I was having one of moments when the many characters I’ve written cross the boundaries of their stories. Cornelis Drebbel (of Copper, the Alchemist, and the Woman in Trousers) popped into the short story I was trying to write… I couldn’t make the story go where the “things” needed to take it — at least not at that time. (Applesauce! If that sounds like a lot…

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