Here we are; it’s our first meeting after the time change. The extra hour of daylight in the evening may have caused some members to forget it was time to head toward the firehouse, and a few of our northern friends departed. There were eight of us diehards in attendance. We enjoyed our time discussing the readings and finished a little early. But we missed all of you that couldn’t attend.
We started the readings with Ernie Ovitz reading an excerpt from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Mark Anthony’s speech to the Senate. After all, it is the Ides of March. Then, reading from Chapter 45 of his work, Ernie took us to Aqua Sulfuria in 342AD on a trip to find a General whom Licentious trusted and reported as having been slain in the war waged by Constantine. Treachery is afoot–a conspiracy forms.
Could a man born in 1984 be 89 years old in 1979? Don Westerfield has that happening in his short story, The Man Who Knew Tomorrow. In 2022 a man, a 22 year-old scientist working on an Atomic Collider, as a new procedure goes awry, is transported from his desk into the past, back to Friday, March 8th, 1912. We are waiting to hear the second part of the story at our next meeting.
Tish McAuley celebrated her 13th year of sobriety this month. CONGRATULATIONS! Tish read an excerpt from her biography. Deciding to get sober at fifty-one is hard, but staying sober is even more challenging. Alcoholism and Drug Dependency are illnesses for which there are no actual medicines. Strong character and dedication are needed to help the few feeble medical remedies offered.
Maybe he’s not finished, but he has arrived at the last planned chapter of Gaia. Bruce Haedrich reads to us the Next 80 Years conclusion. I’m sure Bruce is not ready to walk away from the tale as much as I’m sure Gaia will continue to speak to Bruce and send him updates. Another Ice Age approaches. It’ll be here in a blink of an eye, Gaia’s eye, maybe a few thousand years.
A Puzzle I Cannot Solve is the title of a story by Sandie Schagen. As a child, Sandie remembers her father’s shouts of “NO NO” as his night terrors wakened her. Sandie faces a dilemma as her father, purported to have been a Japanese POW during WWII, refuses to apply for reparation offered by the British government. Why? Sandie pursued the matter and discovered her father’s war records were incomplete at the War Office. There was no record of his capture or release from a POW facility. Was her father making up the story? Did he have nightmares about the war, the camp? Was he believing, falsely, he’d been taken, prisoner? What is the truth?
Ian Schagen brought us a new story in the second chapter of a new book, The Devil’s Guide to the Human Race. The protagonist is an entity in the cosmos that can take shape and form to blend in with its surroundings. Here on earth, the entity chose to take the name Lucifer.
Unfortunately, Ian and Sandie have to return to Great Britain soon and will not return until fall. We will miss them. Have a safe and productive summer.
Well, that about does it for this entry. We’ll be back in April with another meeting and entry. Until then, KEEP ON WRITING!
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