{"id":4510,"date":"2012-08-04T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=4510"},"modified":"2012-08-04T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T18:27:34","slug":"straeon-manor-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=4510","title":{"rendered":"Straeon Manor Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Straeon Manor. Together, our writers are building this house room by room.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Straeon Manor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/straeon-manor-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Straeon Manor at the Confabulator Cafe\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our writers have been asked to imagine a year and to pick one of its rooms. The stories they tell will all become part of the house&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Here you will here stories of wartime and of peace. Of love, jealousy, mystery and madness. You will discover murder and horrors beyond belief, but also \u00a0moments of wondrous beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we visit (and revisit) this special house. It is an old house, but no one is sure how old it is. It&#8217;s filled with mysteries, and together we will discover what some of those mysteries are.<\/p>\n<p>So, come inside. Find a room. And enjoy your stay.<\/p>\n<h3>First Stories (Foundations)<\/h3>\n<p>You may read a story set in a wine cellar in 1880s, a trophy room during the Roaring Twenties, or a kitchen during the Lyndon Johnson administration. Regardless of where and when the story takes place, they all take place here, in Straeon Manor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Scratched\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/07\/scratched\/\">&#8220;Scratched&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Jack Campbell, Jr. (game room, 1970)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Return to Sender\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/07\/return-to-sender\/\">&#8220;Return to Sender&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Larry Jenkins (jungle room, 2010)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Trophies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/07\/trophies\/\">&#8220;Trophies&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Kevin Wohler (trophy room, 1928)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bloody Wine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/07\/bloody-wine\/\">&#8220;Bloody Wine&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Sara Lundberg (wine cellar, 1855)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Growin\u2019 in the Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/08\/growin-in-the-garden\/\">&#8220;Growin\u2019 in the Garden&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by R.L. Naquin (conservatory, 1986)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Kerjigger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/08\/kerjigger\/\">&#8220;Kerjigger&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0by Ted Boone (master bedroom, 1950)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"QED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/08\/qed\/\">&#8220;QED&#8221;<\/a> by Jason Arnett (upstairs library, 1955)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Freedom Is Not So Easily Bought\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/08\/freedom-is-not-so-easily-bought\/\">&#8220;Freedom Is Not So Easily Bought&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Ashley Poland (kitchen, 1967)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Dead Will Walk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/08\/the-dead-will-walk\/\">&#8220;The Dead Will Walk&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Aspen Junge (butler&#8217;s pantry, 1918)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Second Stories (Settling In)<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s Christmastime at Straeon Manor. Many of the stories in this second round are set around the holidays. Some are likely to be stories of family, others of loss. Regardless, we hope you enjoy each of these gifts from the Confabulator Cafe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Santa Claus is Coming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/12\/santa-claus-is-coming\/\">&#8220;Santa Claus is Coming&#8221;<\/a> by Jack Campbell, Jr. (bathroom, 1988)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Lonely Attic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/12\/the-lonely-attic\/\">&#8220;The Lonely Attic&#8221;<\/a> by Sara Lundberg (attic, 1999)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dearest Mama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/12\/dearest-mama\/\">&#8220;Dearest Mama&#8221;<\/a> by Amanda Jaquays (ballroom, 1815)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Out of Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/12\/out-of-time\/\">&#8220;Out of Time&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by R.L. 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In these additional confabulations, you&#8217;ll learn more about the house and who built it. Are these stories true? Are they a work of fiction? Who can tell?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2013\/04\/sensitive\/\">&#8220;Sensitive&#8221;<\/a> by Jason Arnett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2013\/05\/the-builders\/\">&#8220;The Builders&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Jason Arnett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2013\/06\/timber-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;Timber&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Jason Arnett<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2015\/10\/secrets-of-passages\/\">&#8220;Secrets of Passages&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Jason Arnett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Straeon Manor. Together, our writers are building this house room by room. Our writers have been asked to imagine a year and to pick one of its rooms. 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