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<blockquote data-quote="bellgamin" data-source="post: 1009652" data-attributes="member: 56053">In my senior year in High School, I wrote a short fantasy story in fulfillment of an English class assignment. The teacher asked my okay to submit it to a magazine. To my surprise, it was bought &amp; published by &quot;Thrilling Wonder Stories&quot; -- a pulp magazine that published fantasies. I got $250 for it -- that was a LOT for a teen age kid back in those days.The lead character was an age-12 boy who was a street urchin. The boy had been deserted&nbsp; by his parents as a toddler. He was taken in &amp; raised by an old hag who died when he was 11 years old, so he lived on the streets after that, surviving by stealing &amp; begging.I named him Bellgamin. &quot;Gamin&quot; means an urchin. I took &quot;bell&quot; from the &quot;bell, book, &amp; candle&quot; of magic-users. Bellgamin gradually became aware that he had magical powers and --- the game was on -- ~24 pages long.So that&#039;s how I got my user name. Sadly, my own magical powers have never fully developed. Kazam! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="⚡" title="High voltage&nbsp; &nbsp; :zap:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/26a1.png" data-shortname=":zap:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="bellgamin, post: 1009652, member: 56053"] In my senior year in High School, I wrote a short fantasy story in fulfillment of an English class assignment. The teacher asked my okay to submit it to a magazine. To my surprise, it was bought & published by "Thrilling Wonder Stories" -- a pulp magazine that published fantasies. I got $250 for it -- that was a LOT for a teen age kid back in those days. The lead character was an age-12 boy who was a street urchin. The boy had been deserted by his parents as a toddler. He was taken in & raised by an old hag who died when he was 11 years old, so he lived on the streets after that, surviving by stealing & begging. I named him Bellgamin. "Gamin" means an urchin. I took "bell" from the "bell, book, & candle" of magic-users. Bellgamin gradually became aware that he had magical powers and --- the game was on -- ~24 pages long. So that's how I got my user name. Sadly, my own magical powers have never fully developed. Kazam! ⚡ [/QUOTE]

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