MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Katherine Flotz, Sharon Buckman, David Wilgus, Adam Sedia,
Paul Mulligan, George Miga
OLD
BUSINESS:
Minutes tabled until next meeting.
LITERARY
NEWS:
ADAM
SEDIA mentioned that he will have three of his poems published in
the October issue of the Hoosier Boys Journal.
READINGS:
DAVID
WILGUS continued with four pages of his novel, The Joshua Henderson Story.
In this part of the novel Chad is confronted by two police officers. He was asked of his whereabouts several night
before when the Patson family was terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan. His false statement, saying he had gone
bowling, led him into deeper trouble.
PAUL
MULLIGAN read four pages of his newest novel, Be Great – Now Die. After newlyweds, Carl and Darlene, decided to
move in across the street from her parents, they did not envision all the
problems they would encounter. The first
problem, Darlene’s younger brother Eddie, sent her into a rage that threatened
to end their marriage.
ADAM
SEDIA read his eight stanza, Sixaim poem. This remarkable poem, entitled “Insomnia,” tells of the problems an
insomniac encounters when trying to sleep.
The poem ends with the frustrated statement, “that long-desired fatigue
might overwhelm and close my weary, bloodshot stare.”
GEORGE
MIGA
read two pages of a close friend’s story entitled, “Camp Keokuk.” The author,
Tim Connor, told the fictional story of Tom, a Chicago police officer,
receiving a phone call from his mother telling him that his nephew had been
shot. After rushing to the hospital, he
found that his nephew had just died from the gunshot administered by a Chicago
gang. This part of the story ended with
Tom and some of his Marine friends deciding to meet and discuss how they might
end this violence.
SHARON
BUCKMAN continued with three pages of her sequel, “Beyond the
Canopy.” In this part of the story
Harold discovers that the “cousin” his father has been hiding in their fruit
cellar has just died. In reality, the
cousin is really a close friend of his father who is being sought for the
kidnapping and rape of a young girl. The
father is now presented with the dilemma of trying to dispose of the body.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
