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Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« on: November 29, 2006, 12:17:12 am »

Fanfiction.net -- Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree

LiveJournal -- Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree -- Part 1
-- in four parts, complete --

I have called them Jack and Ennis, with whom they share some chasracteristics, but they lived and died, and played Major League Baseball, the most homophobic of all sports, were the best of friends, but not lovers, as I pretend. In 1949, it was a minor miracle-that they were the best of friends.

Mild baseball (no actual playing of the game-some terms glosed). Very slashy, misegenation (one black guy, one white guy). The word comes from the Latin meaning mixig of the races, but means sex betwen people of diferent races, and not-as many think-only mariage, or the producing of children.

The setting, the time, most of the non-slash, and all people of  importance in the story are real (and some of the names I have not  changed).

hit's only me, twistedude.
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Re: Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2006, 06:32:36 pm »
hey, I highly recommend this story! Who better---I wrote it!

Jack? MY Jack!
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Re: Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2006, 09:03:04 pm »
Hi, twistedude!

What a great story!  "Sort of RPS?" I thought.  "Baseball???" I thought.  But you made it work.  And it's a very Jack-and-Ennis-like tale.  (Not Jake-and-Heath!)  It's both sweet and romantic, without being at all overly-sentimental or mushy.  It's a story to read more than once, and savor.
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Re: Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2006, 11:27:29 pm »
I know why so few people are reading this story:
1) It's RPS, but it isn't Jake and Heath.
2)But it claims to be inspired by Brokeback Mountain.
3) And then to top that off, the author calls the principle characters "Jack" and "Ennis."
4) a Black Ennis?
5) hey, maybe the story is lousy (it....isn't.)
6) it's almost 14,000 words long!
6) One more thing...(as Columbo says)...

I WROTE IT!
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Re: Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2007, 05:03:48 pm »
bump! I LIKE this story!
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Re: Atlanta, April 1949: The Magnolia Tree, by sjowall1452
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2007, 03:07:11 am »
Th people I never wanted to see this story are reading it, and the people Iwrote for (you), coulkdn't care less.

These are not REAL baseball cards, because they are hand painted....power of neative thiking.

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