Stories - Flanders Nickels

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The Prom Dress Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders and Proffery begin life on their own in a cabin up north as roommates and best friends and colleagues. Flanders now hopes to adopt a pet Collie whom he will name ‘Shelby.’ Likewise Proffery now seeks a pet German Shepherd whom he will name ‘Trilby.’ Down the road from their cabin the men discover an idyllic sand dunes with a beautiful prom dress girl in green. Her name is ‘Lisa “Gravel” Dryad.’ They fall for her. She tells them all about Christ. But they reject Christ for the cause of dogs. And she must lead them to Christ for the cause of God.

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February 15, 2024

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The Classy Snazzy Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders Nickels suddenly discovers a girl in his high school who is dressed in blue jeans and long-sleeved blue shirt and vest, and he falls for her instantly. Her name is ‘Se Marier Clark,’ and she is as pretty as her outfit. But her presence conflicts with two wars against himself that he is fighting in his head. And he must keep his mind off of her. And he most certainly must not ask her out. But she kind of likes him. And he gives in and goes on a date with her at home, and she goes on to share with him her wisdom as a born-again believer. And his two wars are resolved in his private life to the glory of Christ.

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February 9, 2024

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The Maillot Girlfriend – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The lonely Christian man Flanders Nickels prays that he can go shopping with a girlfriend and buy her a maillot. Lo, a young woman whom he knows from work comes into his life; she is pretty, but she is not a Christian. Her name is ‘Heidi Antron Rooks.’ On their first date, much to his wildest dreams, they go to a department store and she lets him buy her a one-piece swimsuit that is white and is all full of black letters of the alphabet randomly throughout. Lo, his new maillot girlfriend tests his Christian propriety. Will he stay true to Christ and Christian values? Is she going to ruin his testimony as a believer? What will he do about her lost soul?

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January 30, 2024

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The Girl Wrestler – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Tracy Enterprises, an all-star wrestling lady, has a boyfriend, Flanders Nickels, who wrote a novel about sticks that lived. The girl wrestler is the number one contender of women’s professional wrestling. And the writer loves to bat sticks together in make-believe of a fight between them. She is saved; he is unsaved. And the women’s champion of all-star wrestling, the woman called “The Giantess from Parts Unknown,” comes in vengeance upon them just as Tracy is about to lead Flanders to salvation in his back forty.

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January 21, 2024

Read more about the article The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

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The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The China Doll of a Woman—A Sequel”: “Xiao Xiu Xiong, the China doll of a woman, and Flanders Nickels have been girlfriend-and-boyfriend-in-Christ for ten years. Xiao buys herself a Katarina Witt blue ice skating dress for herself to put on every day. She wants to learn how to figure skate. But she finds out that God does not will her to skate, but rather to become a mistress to a pet dog instead. Flanders wants to get a dog, but God does not wish that for him, but rather to buy a filing cabinet instead. In a step of faith, not knowing why God would have him do so, Flanders buys a wooden two-drawer filing cabinet for a time in the future. And God begins to work in the lives of the China doll of a woman and her boyfriend.

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January 14, 2024

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The China Doll of a Girl – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders Nickels, a man with a dog, thinks himself happy with Chartres, his pet Saluki. But suddenly he comes to understand his own mortality. And, pondering death to come someday, he loses his happiness. Along comes a China doll of a girl, a pretty Oriental bride. Her name is Xiao Xiu Xiong, and she is a born-again Christian. She needs to give him hope in Christ. And he needs to become a believer like herself so that death will not be his end.

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January 1, 2024

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The Grande Prairie Theophany—A Sequel To Two – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The Lord Jesus sits on His throne in Grande Prairie, ruling the world of the Griffin Lands and its griffins and people. In the town of Centro four born-again believers and two griffins meet for fellowship on a regular basis. But, behold, a schism comes between the Christians and the griffins of God. And the contention gets worse. What made the griffins so against their two good mistresses and their mistresses’ godly boyfriends? Only the griffins know. Will the rift be healed? Only God knows.

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December 29, 2023

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The Five Creeks Trident – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Lisa ‘Gravel’ Strands, a Five Creeks High School Trident, is a born-again teen-age girl who has just discovered boys. She dresses up in her black and white chevron-patterned swim dress all the time, and now she wants to go out with a guy to show him her swim dress that she adores. She begins her search for a boyfriend out there who is born-again like herself. And she comes upon most disastrous dates with believing young men who do not live for God. But she does not give up.

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December 18, 2023

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The Little Grandee Sprite – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

The Little Grandee Sprite”: “Carol Kretschmer, a born-again believer in tenth grade, first discovers boys as she looks into her high school yearbook. She now wants her first boyfriend. She is the head varsity football cheerleader attired in black and dark blue. She is a Little Grandee High School Sprite with a pet griffin named, ‘Gallant.’ Gallant says, ‘Mistress, before you go out with a boy, make sure that that boy is a Christian like yourself.’ Stubborn, Carol says, ‘No. First I will go on a date, then ask him if he is born-again like myself.’ Thus the sophomore girl begins her new life with cute boys.

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December 11, 2023

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The Sylvan Sylph – Mr. Morgan P. McCarthy

Flanders Nickels remembers the girl who got away—a young woman named ‘Heidi H. Hendrickson.’ She was a fairy girl of the woods who was yet lost in her sins, and he was now a born-again believer with a burden now for her lost soul. Before he had become a born-again Christian, he special ordered a cheerleader’s uniform with her name “HEIDI” upon it to forever remember her by. But he ended up wearing it upon himself instead. And he invites the sylvan sylph Heidi over for a first date. He wants her to see him in this cheerleader uniform and to hear him share the Word of God with her.

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December 4, 2023

My collection of Christian short stories, numbering one hundred in all, I affectionately call ‘My Canon of Horsetails and Cattails.’ And my collection of Christian novels, numbering fifteen in all, I affectionately call ‘My Canon of Griffins and Unicorns.’ And my pen name—Flanders Nickels—I came up with from nowhere some time back in the mid-1980’s. And my writing ministry for God I happily call ‘My Canon Ministry.’ I use only the King James Version Bible. And I am a fundamental Baptist. I hope that you have fun reading for free on this website. And I myself became a born-again believer in Christ in a most wondrous time around Christmas in 1990 in a soul-changing twelve days which I fondly call ‘My Twelve Days of Christmas.’ It is written, ‘”…, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,…” Acts 16:31.’