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Great chapter with excellent descriptions and pacing.

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Thanks, Linda, for trying out Bartle Clunes again. The final draft. Your comments are so encouraging and helpful to me.

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Studebaker. South Bend Indiana. My hometown. We’re still making them when I left. Ahhhh…..Days of yester years.

Louvina. Can’t help but love that woman.

Keep m coming Sharron

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I thank you so much for this personal comment! I am hoping that both men and women will find this tale of the foothills of interest. It reflects a slower, gentler time, and you know, no murders, no exploding cars, no motorcycles flying through the air or super heroes. Yesteryears! Oh, Yes. We have a whole lot of those between the two of us, Bruce, don't we?

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This was a fun installment to read. I also like how you integrate the photos with the story.

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Glad you liked it, Marina. Thank you. There is more to these two people than one might imagine. I hope you stay with it for a couple more chapters. Share it with a friend - it's free!

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Love these two. I grew up in a subdivision that had streets named after car companies. I lived on Studebaker street.

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Oh, Mark! I can't tell you how happy I am that you are reading a couple of chapters of Bartle Clunes. It is not to everyone's taste, I know, with its quiet setting, its rural concerns and and use of the English vernacular of the 1940s. But sometimes, we tire of exploding cars, ghouls, murder and angst and just want to visit a peaceful place for a few minutes. Right?

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I love it for exactly those reasons. It transports me to another place and time. And isn’t that what storytelling should do? Excellent writing!

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Oh, man! Make me cry, why don't you! Thanks so much, Mark, for seeing this little chronicle for what it has to offer.

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When I read fiction, I don’t want read “ripped from the headlines.” I want to escape. To be transported to something outside of my experiences. Period stories are like time travel! I love them.

Which probably why my first novel was set in the late 18th century. 🤣

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Tell me the name of it and where I can find it, please.

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It is titled The Grand Story Of The Seemingly Impossible Adventures Of Baron Britpop Blastfurnace. Or Baron Britpop Blastfurnace for short. 🤣

It is available on Amazon, but you can read it for free on my Substack, here:

https://markstarlinwrites.substack.com/p/silent-horseshoes

It is a mishmash of adventure, romance, humor, action, and friendship. It may not be your cup of tea. It is very quirky. So don’t feel obligated to read it. 🤓

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Studebaker Street! What a fun street name.

A friend of mine, who lives in Woodstock, New York, a quiet, pretty and wooded place, lives on a street called "Parkway." It's not a parkway; it's a dead end lane with tall trees on either side, but somebody decided to call it "Parkway."

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It was cool. There was also Chevrolet, Buick, DeSoto, Nash, and Hudson.

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I love this. It's right up my alley. This is the kind of story I can sink into and read easily. Keep it up!

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So glad to hear it. It is not to everyone's taste, but the reader knows after one page what the tenor and rhythm will be. They are lovely people in Riles Crossing. And in in the middle of the story new characters come in to add even more to the mix. Thanks again, Ben,for having a look at Bartle Clunes.

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I not only looked at it, I subscribed and shared it to my Facebook followers. Every little bit helps, as they say. I hope you get a few more bites out of it.

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Yowza! Thanks so much, Ben. It DOES help. I do not subscribe to any social media sites at all, so It has slowed my exposure a little. Doesn't matter. I am having so much fun. As I am sure you are.

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I love this and especially the descriptions that give a wondrous sense of place and time: "The brindled hound came tearing around the corner of the shed at the sound and bounded up into the driver's seat, smearing mud everywhere."

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I am so honored that Bill Adler, Mark Starlin, James Ron, JustMud and Ben Woestenburg are reading Bartle Clunes!! That is just so exciting to me. I guess some of you are due for a little quiet nostalgia for a few days... I know I am. Thanks gentlemen!

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