Icky Waddles

By R C Ducantlin

Icky Waddles is a short story about friendship, overcoming adversity, with a touch of fantasy.

 

I think you will find Icky Waddles a quick, easy read, with some humor, a little pride in growing strength, and a few surprises. 

 

Reviews, good and bad, are always appreciated.

 

Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: R C Ducantlin, Ltd.
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781949211467

R C Ducantlin

Fortunately, in secondary school, my interest in reading was sparked. A close friend and an instructor, who took interest in a boy he later called ‘The rebel without a clue.,’ were instrumental in my learning the value of a good book. Both piqued my interest in reading. My lifelong friend inspired me to read J.R.R. Tolkien and I became addicted to the fantasy genre. The instructor required I read interesting historical novels for academic credit. Frank Norris, Leon Uris, and Ken Follett are inspirations and fuel my love of history. Born to a military family, it was logical that I follow the military tradition. However, after four years of “yes sirs” and scraping the wax off floors I decided there must be more fun in a corporate career. Thirty plus years of work experiences across the globe, the corporate career landed me in Colorado, where I live with my wife and I can be close to my children and grandchildren.

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Icky Waddles

A Short Story

__________

By

Ruairí Cinéad Ducantlin

Copyright

Copyright © 2020 by Ruairí Cinéad Ducantlin, Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication is available to be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, without the prior written permission of the author.

Disclaimer

This book is a work of fiction and is provided exclusively for entertainment purposes. This means the everything written came from the author’s imagination with the hope of entertaining you, the reader. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination and/or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is entirely coincidental.

Genre: Young Adult / Short Stories

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Icky Waddles

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

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Icky Waddles

Part 1

"You can’t stop the waves,

but you can learn to surf."

Joseph Goldstein

MY NAME IS MELVIN JACOBI Waddell. Everyone calls me Icky. Icky Waddles. Mother said when she brought me home from the hospital, my older sister Lillian could not say Jacobi. She said, Icky. Lillian couldn’t know the Jay in Jacobi.

Mother is being nice.

Lillian tells me I am icky.

The kids at school call me Waddles. You know, like a duck. You would think they do that because of my last name, but that is not true. They call me Waddles because my left foot does not work too well.

When I walk, I kind of waddle side to side.

The kids used to be mean to me, but not so much now. When we got to middle school, everyone started being nice. In middle school, several kids are like me. In elementary school, I was the