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This weeks amazing stories are all worthy of being selected as picks, as such we aren’t separating out specific editor’s picks.

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The steel pipe connected hard with Allen’s thigh.

“Hey!” he yelled. He jumped back, narrowly avoiding a second swing of the pipe aimed at his abdomen. Glass tinkled as the pipe impacted the wing mirror on the car instead.

Panic set in along with a dull throbbing pain in his leg. He might have pushed it too far this time. Obviously leaving the pipe there as a sort of set dressing had been a mistake.

He saw Patrick raise his improvised weapon over his head and bring it down in a double handed swing.

“Wait!” Allen shrieked. He tried…

“Watercolors”

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Dear Knobbiers,

Recently, when we as editors get together to sort out the new batch of submissions we say, “This will be our best edition yet.” Each week those words are true and each week your stories outdo the stories of the week before. The Dragon edition is no exception. I am not using hyperbole when I say that for a while we seriously considered the idea of featuring everyone.

In the end we settled on Nicole’s Every Home Should Have One, Jeffrey’s Cover Blown At The Opera and Louise’s How To Defeat Dragons as our editor’s picks.

However, the…

On 16th January 2020 we published these amazing stories:

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The #thankmas live-stream was an success.

Had we reached our $500 donation goal on Sunday the 13th and picked up ten new subscribers to our YouTube channel who were previously unaware of The Weekly Knob, I would have talked about a resounding success.

The only way I can properly express what happened during the live-stream, is to round the corner of hyperbole and end up at understatement.

At one point during the stream we got “raided” by one of YouTube’s biggest and most popular creators. The video of our stream now stands at 11.6K views, with a total of nearly six hundred watch hours. The Channel…

My uncle with his trumpet. My two oldest cousins on the flute. The middle one on a clarinet. Her sister on a recorder, because she only just started lessons. There was a man with a trombone too, a great uncle perhaps? He was bald and wrinkly and always smiling, even when he was blowing on his instrument. The rest of us singing along.

We’d start out on Christmas carols and when we ran out, we’d play and sing whatever came to mind. It didn’t matter if we went out of tune, good was never the objective.

Grandma at the head…