MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Sharon Palmeri, Sharon Buckman, Katherine Flotz, Beverly
Stanislawski, Suzy Stueben, Bob Moulesong, Paul Mulligan, Ruthann Graczyk,
Kelly Chase, Laurie Chase
GUESTS
PRESENT:
Denise Taylor, Mary Ellen Beecher
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the February 19, 2014 meeting was
first given by BOB MOULESONG and was
seconded by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI.
NEW
BUSINESS:
An introduction was first given by guest, Denise Taylor.
Denise stated that she was presently employed by Midwest Products and was in
the process of revising a novel she has been working on for the past two years,
entitled Beth’s Choice. Mary Ellen Beecher introduced herself by
stating that she had formerly been a student of Sharon Palmeri’s, in her 2009
class, and had always enjoyed writing.
LITERARY
NEWS:
PAUL
MULLIGAN stated that he had watched a video entitled, “LIES AT THE ALTER THE TRUTH ABOUT GREAT
MARRIAGES,” by Dr. Robin L. Smith.
He recommended either the book or video to all members.
BOOKS:
SUZY
STUEBEN recommended “MARY
POPPINS, SHE WROTE” a biography by P.
L. Traverse.
MOVIES:
SHARON
PALMERI recommended a 2001
movie she watched called “I AM SAM”
and BOB
MOULESONG recommended the recent
release “THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB.”
READINGS:
BOB MOULESONG read
seven flash fiction stories. The titles
are as follows: “Absence,” “Desolation
Angel,” “Mi Familia,” “A Dark and Stormy Night,” “Ricky Gets What He Came For,”
“Voices Carry,” and “Reflections.”
Each story was exactly 50 words and gave a complete understanding of the
story.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her 14 line Shakespearean sonnet entitled, “My Maiden Fair.” The sonnet told of the admiration and longing to
be with the one he loved, ending with, “For
fate barred me from my Eden’s bliss.”
SUZY
STUEBEN continued with three pages of her humorous story, “Mrs. Walter’s New Pet.” In this part of her story she told of the
destruction caused by her stone, but very much alive, gargoyle. After being seriously reprimanded by her
mother, she decided that she should tone down her antics.
SHARON
BUCKMAN read her short story entitled, “A Dark and Stormy Night.”
The story involved a young mother enjoying her birthday when a storm
suddenly appeared. An uninvited guest
suddenly entered her house as she looked for a candle; after threatening him
with a toy gun, the young mother discovered he was trying to find refuge for
his wife who was about to give birth.
PAUL
MULLIGAN continued with his novel, Be Brave and Die – Damn It. In this part of the story, Akem, a young male
who was caught on camera robbing a neighborhood store and killing the store
clerk, still denied it was him and was sentenced to eighty years in prison. After a number of years had gone by, Carl
Jones never forgot the awful waste of this tragedy and hoped he could do
something in the future to prevent a future tragedy.
LAURIE
CHASE read four pages of the beginning of her novel,
Allizorn Hegemony, Zoristall, a novel that takes place in a future time
and tells of the prejudice in which a young girl, half human and half alizorn,
must live. The little girl, Togalaz, is
introduced to her uncle who then confronts her father and forces him to reveal
the little girl’s heredity.
KELLY
CHASE continued with two pages of her novel, THE RING. In this part of her story, Kristine, is
confronted by her high school friends who are desperately trying to find out what
her famous date, Jesse, was really like.
When Jesse appeared in his shiny black sports car to pick her up, her
boyfriend, Travis, was watching on the sidelines.
RUTHANN
GRACZYK read the preface of her soon to begin novel, The
Reconnection. The preface tells of the portrayal by her husband of
twenty years, leaving her now standing at a crossroad in her life not knowing
which way to go.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
