MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Bob Philpot, Sharon Buckman, Beverly Stanislawski, Sharon
Palmeri, Marilyn Kessler, Ruthann Graczyk, Amy Brailey, Mary Ellen Beecher,
Rebecca Juergens
GUESTS
PRESENT:
Amy Clites, Mike Bednarczyk
AMY
CLITES introduced herself to the members. She explained that she was formerly from Los
Angeles and New York and is now living in this area. She also stated she that she has had several
different occupations including ghost writing and writing screenplays.
MIKE
BEDNARCZYK also introduced himself and stated that he loves to write
children’s stories and has moved from Mississippi to Schererville.
LITERARY
NEWS:
One of the members stated that HARDERSHAN VALIA is among three poets vying for the first prize in
the Quantam Leap Poetry Contest.
REBECCA
JUERGENS asked a question concerning the differences of writing in the
first, second or third person. A
discussion then followed by members and SHARON
PALMERI as to their opinions.
READINGS:
SHARON
BUCKMAN read her two-page short story, “When Do I Get to Be
Smart.” The story, a comedy, pertained
to a Christmas present she received, an Echo.
She had no idea of what it was or how to use it, therefor, through her embarrassment;
everything had to be explained to her. The following day produced mass
confusion.
BOB PHILPOT read his four-page
prologue, “Strange Friend.” The prologue
tells of a FedEx truck pulling up in front of a house across the street from
two women that are watching it. The
truck driver first goes to the front door, talking to the woman who answers the
door. It then backs up to the opened
garage door. When the two “wing” doors
of the truck are opened it hides the six men leaving it and quickly go into the
house.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI brought two poems. The first poem, entitled “Snakes Alive!” had
taken second place in an Oklahoma poetry contest and tells of the “deceiving
devil” of a rattlesnake. The second
poem, a villanelle poem entitled, “The Watchers,” tells of the time being
calculated without being able to be retrieved.
MARILYN
KESSLER read her five stanza
poem entitled, “The Christmas Pajamas.” This beautiful poem tells of the giving
of a pair of pajamas to someone in great need and ends with, “So, sleep in
peace and dream tonight.”
RUTHANN
GRACZYK read her six-stanza poem entitled, “Loving Sid Viscous.” The poem tells of how her cat, Sid,
originally came to her house in an extremely “rough” condition and how it
mellowed throughout the years.
AMY BRAILEY read her
two page short (unfinished) story entitled, “The Music Box.” The story begins with Marley going to the
antique store she frequently passed and finally purchases the music box that
had enchanted her for so long. When she
finds it has already been sold, she heads to the person she knows had purchased
it.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
