I love your UKE Early short story Frederick, these words just popped into my mind “real meat on the bone” and I’m sticking with that 🍯 keep the short stories coming and enjoy the ride 💛Lady G
This was quite the story, Frederick. Obviously Early not only survived the Vietnam war, but then he also made himself useful by helping others adjust after the war. What a guy indeed! He must have had a pretty high pain threshold. Love, Maria
Thanks again Leslie. I checked my post and found Clearly instead of Early twice, which I've corrected. Unlike many writers who post their stories on Substack, my short stories are 99% fiction. Although I trained in MA for more than 20 years, I didn't begin training until I was nearly 40! The character Sensei is based loosely on two martial arts instructors I knew. One with whom I only trained a handful of times and the other was more a long-distance teacher, who we saw only 2-3 times annually for a week of intense training each time. There was no uke who resembled Early. When we trained with an instructor, we all served as an uke. When we trained together without an instructor, we were each other's uke.
I think your auto-correct changed Early to Clearly twice. What a great story. I knew about your love of martial arts, but did not know how long you practiced.
Thanks for the restack, @Pike's Peak. 🙏
Thank you, Lique, for the restack. 🙏
I love your UKE Early short story Frederick, these words just popped into my mind “real meat on the bone” and I’m sticking with that 🍯 keep the short stories coming and enjoy the ride 💛Lady G
This was quite the story, Frederick. Obviously Early not only survived the Vietnam war, but then he also made himself useful by helping others adjust after the war. What a guy indeed! He must have had a pretty high pain threshold. Love, Maria
Thanks again Leslie. I checked my post and found Clearly instead of Early twice, which I've corrected. Unlike many writers who post their stories on Substack, my short stories are 99% fiction. Although I trained in MA for more than 20 years, I didn't begin training until I was nearly 40! The character Sensei is based loosely on two martial arts instructors I knew. One with whom I only trained a handful of times and the other was more a long-distance teacher, who we saw only 2-3 times annually for a week of intense training each time. There was no uke who resembled Early. When we trained with an instructor, we all served as an uke. When we trained together without an instructor, we were each other's uke.
We can say that after his experience in the war, he had a change of heart about war…amd martial arts.
I think your auto-correct changed Early to Clearly twice. What a great story. I knew about your love of martial arts, but did not know how long you practiced.
Thanks, Leslie, autocorrect http://is.my nemesis. I'll check the story again.
Good for Early! I have little knowledge of martial arts, but this is good to know... I will never volunteer to be uke, just in case.
But as the sensei said, “If don't feel it, you don't know what it is.” 😂
I don't want to know what it is :-)