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Grandpa DeanVery Strange Tales for Strange Kids

Grandpa Dean developed his unique storytelling in the backwoods of Alabama...

His stories were for the simple folk he loved until a tour of duty took him to the War in Canada. After an honorable discharge, he studied the famous (and mysterious) wishing penguins of Wisconsin before settling down in Poughkeepsie, New York. A handsome man to this day, Grandpa Dean’s delightful yarns will make you smile, or at the very least, make you feel a bit weird and uncertain.

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The Albino Wish-Granting Camel

In the Arabian Desert one of the soldiers fighting for the French was about to leave without permission...

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Three More Wishes

Just outside the small town of Holtville, Alabama, a magic well appeared. No one knew how it got there, it just appeared.

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The Striped Deer & the Third Wish

Many years ago, when hunting was a way of life for people, there was a poor woodsman.

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A Frog for Wishin'

Yeah, I know, but this frog could talk and grant wishes.

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The Wish-Granting Mermaid

Lee and Walter were lifelong best friends. They grew up in Goose Creek until Walter’s parents moved to Mount Pleasant.

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The Wish-Granting Shower

Keshawn was in his room and could hear his parents arguing in the kitchen. Again.

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The Wish-Granting Bear

Most animals don’t have human names, but the animals with special gifts do...

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The One Wish Wishing Well

The circus came to Wetumpka, stayed for a week, and then left on a Tuesday night...

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Wish-Granting Gremlin

Four days after Robby Warner turned thirteen, his grandmother died...

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Wishing Well

Foreward from Grandpa Dean's Wishing Well Stories

Studying Grandpa Dean’s Wishing Stories, one finds a consistent message of overall confusion. But do not naively assume this confusion is not purposely constructed.

Take, for example, the story “Wish-Granting Gremlin.” Just why does a gremlin have a Howler Monkey? And why exactly does this gremlin fly a plane? Look at his story “The Albino Wish-Granting Camel.” Is Pierre meeting Khalid in heaven? Is it a dream? Did the Albino Camel actually go back in time? 

Only Grandpa Dean knows. But that’s what makes him a genius. He challenges your intellect with open-ended questions about life, love & spirituality. Reading Grandpa Dean’s Wishing Well Stories left me bewildered and slightly uncomfortable. What more could you ask for?

—T. Fritz December 2009

Tina A. Fritz is author of the biography, Grandpa Dean – Guaranteed to Make You Laugh or Cry. She teaches a class on how to write wishing stories at the esteemed Hillsborough Community College. She lives in Grassy Meadows Trailer Park with 15 Chihuahuas and one gerbil.

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