This is Chapter 7 of The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. I'll be reading from this book on Tuesdays, and my own stories on Fridays.

In the last chapter, we saw how much Bertie Wooster missed having Jeeves to help him. We now will meet Bertie's cousins, Claude and Eustace - definite troublemakers.

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Today's are both from 2012, with a romance theme, for Valentine's Day next week. For the first one, we had to craft an unlikeable protagonist. Mine is a bit of a manipulator. For the second the challenge was to set it in a bookstore, and include six random words. I got broken, music, mechanical, grubby, backpack, and cowboy.

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This is Chapter 6 of The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. I'll be reading from this book on Tuesdays, and my own stories on Fridays.

In the last chapter, Bertie Wooster came up with a possibly clever plan. We'll see how that works.

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Today's are both from 2012, For the first one, the challenge was to pick a random song title for iTunes as my prompt. I got I Remember - the link is to the Deadmau5 version. For the second we were given a list of 10 random words to include in a story. I did a bit of speculation with a First Nation's twist.

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This is Chapter 5 of The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. I'll be reading from this book on Tuesdays, and my own stories on Fridays.

In the last chapter, Bertie Wooster managed not only to avoid marriage to a thief, but also gain a real advantage over his Aunt Agatha. Are you ready for another adventure?

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Welcome to Raven's Readings and a little bonus, with a definite winter theme - the Cremation of Sam McGee. It's a poem, written by Robert Service, a Canadian poet, and published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough

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Today's stories are from 2012. For the first, the challenge was to write an interesting story of a person making a sandwich. For the second, the limit was five sentences, and fewer than 100 words.

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This is Chapter 4 of The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. I'll be reading from this book on Tuesdays, and my own stories on Fridays.

In the last chapter, Bertie Wooster was at a resort visiting his Aunt Agatha, who had found the perfect wife for him. Whether he wanted one or not. We will now see if he manages to wriggle his way out, in spite of Jeeves being less than helpful. Something about a scarlet cummerbund, I believe.

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Today's stories are from 2012, both have a sci-fi flavour, with overtones of Apple.

For the first, the challenge was to write a story using only the present tense, This constraint adds a sense of urgency to your writing, and prevents you from adding in long backstory.

The next story has a more complicated prompt. There are many structures to craft a story around, we were given a seven-part one: intro; problem; initial struggle; complications; failed attempt; major crisis; climax and resolution. But it’s just a story.

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This is Chapter 3 of The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. I'll be reading from this book on Tuesdays, and my own stories on Fridays.

In the previous two chapters, we met Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. We saw how Jeeves devised an ingenious scheme that benefited his master, Bertie, Bertie’s friend Bingo Little, and also himself. Clever man. In the next story, told as two chapters again, we meet Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Brace yourselves, she is a formidable force.

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