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Sister Immolata looked over the top of her glasses and down her nose at Jack, sprawling insolently in the purposely uncomfortable hardwood chair with no armrests that she’d placed outside her office door, and said “I’ll be with you in a moment, Jack.”
Jack’s confidence wavered at the dry, dead scent of her wafting past as she passed through the door and closed it oh-too-quietly behind her; he wondered which prank had put him in the kettle this time.
From magic beans to stolen harps, jumping over candlesticks to stealing simple Simon’s pies, and spending the nights in haunted mansions in order to win a bet by not showing his fear, his composure was beginning to slip under the hard and constant vigilance of Sister Immolata; he bolted upright in the chair and barked his shin in the process.
Had she heard about his climb up the hill and the subsequent fall with Jill? Would he have to marry the girl, because no way—he’d seen her mum, and he didn’t care for the daughter THAT much.
His stomach plummeted to his shoes and he nearly shat himself when he heard the door creak open and Sister’s voice, dry as ancient scrolls, wheeze “Jack, I need to have a word with you.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2026)
Valley 
You had me writhing in my chair! A broken crown is the least of his problems!
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(Hmmm…might explain some of his questionable shenanigans, though) 🤗
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Jack, you’ve been busy, all those rhymes and fairy tales you’ve had written about your exploits, I’m shocked you’re still around to be scolded!
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🤣🤣
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Oh my, I wanna hear that talk for sure now… Way to end an interesting piece… My nosey arse can not… Seems he is in a lot of trouble… Haha…
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Another “Jack Tale”…haha!
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Interesting
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wth!
time to travel the Reader! would be nice if’n you’d of provided some PTSD pills (for some of us)
… I could add to the list but you’ve cast a spell that, fortunately for some, only a certain percentage are spell-bound to your Six… (hint: the ones who can also smell the mimeograph ink in the office)
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So Jack is another aspect of you? 😄
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in the dark empire of ‘The Sisters’ we’re all Jack
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Glad I’m not Catholic. 🙀
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Oh, I loved that such a lot. All those excellent nursery rhymes and more… yay!
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Thank you kindly, Chris!
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oh no – what has she found out – maybe it’s him climbing up that bean pole again?? Great descriptive piece Liz – this is brilliant ‘the dry, dead scent of her wafting past’ 🙌
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She’s seen/heard it all, but perhaps Jack’s gone too too far?
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I hope not!!
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(makes for better stories, tho’)
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😃
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It looks like a new series is beginning. I like the part about Jill and her mum. I wonder what kind of trouble Jack is in this time.
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Knowing Javk and all the fairy tales & nursery rhymes, could be anything…😉
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A nun who took the name “Immolata” is a nun not to be messed with, lol. Jack will be in trouble for what he did, didn’t and might do if Sister Immolata is in a bad mood. Run, Jack. Run 🤣
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You nailed it…it’s a jumpin’ Jack flash an’ it’s a gas gas gas!
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Loving the mirror image between tales and headmaster’s office reality.
Brava, Liz.
( Octavious was dubious about the circle’s radious… oh, well, at least he’s not commodius and kill Aurelious).
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I’ll take both those rhymes!
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It’s really all because of being named ‘Jack.’ He ought to change it to ‘Octavius.’ There’s little chance of anyone rhyming him to devious acts then!
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(I’m considering this a challenge.) 😏😅
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:D
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Did I go into spam?
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You did not. 🤗
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Jack has been a very busy boy but it might be time to pay the piper!
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Sister Immolata has this well in hand. 😉
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That’s very, very good. Poor old Jack what will he get up to next. You know he was also Jack the Giant Killer
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That’s right! And it all began with trading his old cow for a handful of magic beans…
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(Just looked up the Andrew Lang version you’re referring to. That was likely this Jack’s shenanigan, as well!)
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Looks like that John is being afraid of Sister Immolata’s constant vigilance.
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Yah, he should be. 😂
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Exactly! 😂
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