HeyJaredPaperbag stories
A mix of fiction, memory and the unthinkable from One Lucky Bunny aged 82.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Aug 22, 2026
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Paperbagstory booklets are getting a new ‘all-in-one’ easy to make look (opens the original)
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. . .mastering OCR (optical character reading) and writing with my Apple Pencil as easily as I can with a fountain pen.Why? Because I have a collection of published articles dating back fifty-three years, some of which I would like to share on paperbagstories and turn into booklets. Then there is the fact that I am sure my creative juices flow better when I have a fountain pen in my left hand than when my finger tips are working a keyboard.Since 2015 I have been using a HP dual colour laser prin
Are you sure about this? (opens the original)
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I picked up my pen and held it to the paperbag, then I followed. The result? A 327 word story which took me thirty minutes. I had no idea where it was going, but the fact that it contains references to canals, trolleybuses and Louise Brooks are all reflections of me. AS for the story I have no idea where that came from!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eiLt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
This a test post using my old iMac - please ignore (opens the original)
Test post. Please ignore. If it works it will be deleted (opens the original)
I am moving the me in paperbagstories to a new substack page (opens the original)
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Follow the link below, which is by way of being a test. It will not mean more work because my plan is to strip paperbagstories of all its extraneous bits and transfer them to roberthoward.substack.com. For health reasons (I have pulmonary fibrosis) I have for the last twelve years as good as hibernated from now until April. My life is as dramatic as that. I still go out, subject to the weather, but I avoid crowds and public transport (and the latter is the worst part of it because I love buses).
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