OCTOBER 4, 2018

LATE ENTRY

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Tim Philippart, Sharon Buckman, Beverly Stanislawski, Marilyn Kessler, Katherine Flotz,  Danielle Johnson, Amy Brailey, Caren VonSee, Tammy Breitweiser

NEW BUSINESS:

MARILYN KESSLER stated she would soon be leaving for Rome to see the canonization of Kathryn Casper from Dernback, Germany.

AMY BRAILEY mentioned she would soon be seeing a performance for the Passion Play in Oberamonergaw, Germany.

KATHY FLOTZ reminded the members that we had only two meetings left before the Christmas Party on December 5^th and they needed to turn in their money for the party if they planned on attending.  There will be no meetings in December, the next meeting will be at the Merrillville library on  January 3^rd.

LITERARY NEWS:

 BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI stated she has taken 2^nd place for her poem, “Wanna Run,” and 3^rd place for her poem, “Maestro,” in the Massachusetts State Poetry contest.

READINGS:

CAREN VON SEE continued reading Chapter Nine of her novel, My Treasure Chest.  After receiving their inheritance of property and monies, Antonio and Sara started working their way through all the rooms and buildings they had just inherited.  They were left with only one unidentified key for which they were unable to place the proper door.  Senor Albano was quite aware of Sara’s distant behavior towards him.

TIM PHILIPPART read three of his poems.  The first poem, previously published in Zoetic Press Anthology, was titled, “Bus Fare Was Nearly Free.”  In this six-stanza poem Tim described how a Mom, along with her son and daughter, would ride a bus back in l956 with all the windows opened in the summer months so that they could enjoy the breeze.  The second poem, “What Shall We Call This Dance?,” told of two lovers enjoying a dance that they couldn’t name.  The last poem, entitled “Introverts,” told of how extroverts felt themselves superior.

TAMMY BREITEISER read her two-page short story entitled, “A Moment in Time.”  The story told of how the death of a man from a car accident affected the lives of three different people.  It began with his wife being jolted awake at 4:56 A.M., already knowing her husband was dead.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI  read two of her poems, “Overcome the World,” and “Verse I Did Not Rehearse.”  The five-stanza first poem told of how “nothing can tear love asunder, when one is left to stay, the other is waiting yonder.”  The second poem,  a Diversification poem with the first letter of each line spelling out the word, VERSIFICATION.

MARILYN KESSLER read her two-page story, possibly to become a novel at a later time, entitled, “Maude.”  The story begins at a cemetery and is being told by Maude as she lies in peace next to her sisters, father, aunts, and uncles.  Maude is the last to be laid to rest among her prominent Midwestern family who has seen good times and bad.

DANIELLE JOHNSON read two pages of her novel, Love & Dissidence.  The story begins in the Palace of Marriages where Katia and Nikolai are getting married.  As the clerk begins to ask Katia a number of questions, she begins to glare at him.  When she is told that if they are planning to move in the next few years they will need to get on the waiting list.  She informs him they are not planning to have children for many years.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:

SHARON BUCKMAN