MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Marilyn Kessler, Sharon Buckman, Kathy Flotz, Tim Philippart,
Hardarshan Valia, Cynthia Wilson, Ruthann Graczyk, Rebecca Juergens, Amy Clites,
Amy Brailey, Bob Philpot, Corri Stephenson, Paula Stephenson, Caren VonSee,
Diane Stratton
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the May 3, 2018 minutes was first given
by MARILYN KESSLER and seconded by TIM PHILIPPART.
READINGS:
AMY
BRAILEY read the first half of her short story entitled, “Stranded.” The story, which Amy’s students will finish, began
with a young woman named Serenity stranded on a tropical island. It was now her 100th day on the
island and she was so lonesome she had begun talking to herself. As this part of the story ended she found a
human footprint by the rock she was sitting on.
The footprint was accompanied by the footprints spelling out “Happy 100th day.”
AMY
CLITES read two pages of Chapter 1 of her novel, “Inside Chance.” The story
begins with a young woman walking down the street. Hearing various sounds in her ears she grabs
her Walkman out of her pocket and placed earphones on both ears. Fearing she is going crazy she tries to remember
what her grandmother had taught her, to imagine bad thoughts are drifting away,
like dandelion tufts. She later runs
into a boy on a skateboard who knocks her down along with all her books.
MARILYN
KESSLER read three pages of her short story entitled, “Three Little Words.” Her story relates to how three little words
can forever change your life. The basic
words she chose were, “I love you,” Let’s
get married,” It’s a girl,” It’s a boy,”College of DuPage,” I’m leaving home,”We
are moving,” Dad has died,” and “Mom has died.” There were a few others but all together they
told a story.
RUTH ANN
GRACZYK read her two-page short story entitled, “Where is My Brother.” This
true story relates to what preceded her brother’s disappearance and the trouble
he had encountered with the police. The
woman he had been living with told Ruth Ann that she had him arrested the night
before because he had choked her and pushed her off a second floor
balcony. After trying to post his bail
she found out he had contacted a fellow church member and had already been released.
TIM
PHILIPPART read five short poems.
The first, “Trees at Sunset,”
told of the beauty of the sunrises and sunsets.
The second poem, “Ground Fog,”
relates to fog as a giant and later to ground fog. The third poem, “Finch,” tells of the finch flying from limb to limb before the
“cat” approaches. The fourth poem, “From Dune Park to Van Buren Station,” is
a four stanza poem tells of the ugly backyards of Gary as he rides through on
an electric train. The fifth poem is a five-stanza
poem entitled, “When I Was Eleven,”
tells of Mrs. Grace, a retired librarian who loved peonies and how he now mows
around them as he thinks of her.
CAREN VON SEE read three pages of her
novel, My Treasure Chest. This part of
the novel tells of an event which had terrified Sara after leaving a church in
Rome. The following day they would leave
for Tuscany where she would live with her new husband and learn a new language
and a new life.
REBECCA
JUERGENS first read a two page
short story entitled, “The Boy on the Stairs.”
The story told of a young boy’s
remembrance of his grandmother and his visits with her as he sits on the steps
of a smoke filled room, watching his grandmother and her friends playing a card
game. The second story, “Snapped,” is a flash fiction story
of 150 words telling of a wife’s abuse as her husband backs her up against the
bathroom wall, choking her. It ends with
her pulling a knife from her back pocket and leaving with her son.
CYNTHIA
WILSON read four pages of her
novel , “Imagine Heaven.” This is a true story of a minor surgery
gone bad, leaving a young mother in a coma for seven years. Following this terrible event her young son
and grandmother were killed after being hit by a train as they tried to cross
the tracks going to his school.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
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