Jack and Jill

Hi. You've probably come here thinking this is a fan page for the TV show Jack and Jill. Nope. That's somehwere else, but also has 'jacknjill' in its web address, which is probably what you were looking for. In this one, the guy's named Jack and the girl's named Jill, and none of their friends used to work for MTV.

This is a fiction series I (me being Sean Ryan, hi, nice to meet you) wrote my senior year of college, September 1997 through May 1998. (Late April 1998 if you want to get specific.) I did it as a serial format published in the Signal, the school paper of The College of New Jersey, because without a deadline I have a real problem getting anything written.

I don't know why, but it's still on the Signal web site, ready for viewing. Just click the blue words.

Looking back, I should have added some more dialogue tags. "Jack said nervously", "said Jill unremarkably", just so it reads less confusing. There's a very good reason for it. I only had half a page to fit each chapter in each week, and that page was parially filled by a big piece of Mark Morano art every week (which I should really find copies of, scan and put up). I shrunk all the type to nine points, shrunkt he space between to get a few extra lines, and I still spent hours every week trimming and snipping until all the words cleared the half page hurdle. I didn't want to cut any decent dialogue, or anything else, so all that was left to cut were occasional long adjectives and the dialogue tags. If you've got any questions with who says what (most all of the time it's just two people talking, so you can figure it out from the one dialgoue tag I left in per chapter), just e-mail me and I'll give you my best guess.

Special Bonus!

The secret, lost, vile missing chapter!

Every April 1st the Singal comes out, the joke issue of the Signal. Most dream sequences are seriously wretched, but this was a chance for me to get an extra half-page of story, so I took it. Since it was Singal and not Signal, it didnt' get in the archives, but it fits in right after spring break. So read un until spring break, then come back here, click these blue words, and then continue reading from the Signal site. It's filthy, but it's ... well, it's not good, but it's certainly filthy.

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