THE REVIEW

EIGHTY-EIGHT!!!


Today is Margaret’s 88th birthday! Congratulations from all the Rams, Margaret!

Ellie and Jason joined me last Wednesday for a Meeting here in spite of the heavy rain and wind that night. Jim was still recovering from his surgery. He said he was going back to work today. Hope all is well. Wendy wasn’t well last week, either. Julie said she couldn’t make the Meeting. And sadly, Bob has said he’s lost interest in writing anything and will no longer be attending. We will miss him.

Jason read the next chapter, “Illusions”, where Gregg thinks he has died, but is phantasizing about Jody seducing him, which he thinks is real. Then the man in black attacks Jody and as they leave, Gregg wants to follow them. But his Auntie Samantha, who had died, appears and warns him that he will be dead if he doesn’t come with her, and that being tempted by Jody was just a trick by the man in black. Lots of sexual tension in this chapter that was very well done.

Ellie read us her poem about the Coati-Mundi, that she had submitted to the Canadian Poetry Institute and which has won 2nd place in their competition. The Coati-Mundi is a mischievous animal much like a raccoon that lives in Central America. Ellie wrote the poem to instruct young children about the animal, but also related the animal’s funny antics to give some homour to the rhyming verse.

Since I didn’t have any new writing of my own to read, I read two chapters of Margaret’s from “Cofin And Dye”. In the second half of “Goodbye Mr. Turnkey”, Coffin accidentally lets go of the wooden cart carrying Mr. Turnkey’s coffin, and the cart takes off down the hill. The coffin leaves the cart, turns over, and the remains of Mr. Turnkey fall into Slipper’s Creek. Coffin and the mourners following him, retrieve the coffin, put it on the cart, and proceed to the cemetery where Rev. Solace conducts the service and unknowingly buries an empty coffin.

In the next chapter, “Coffin Arrives Home”, Dye instructs Coffin to meet him and they go on to St. Willen’s Church on the Busby estate where a ghost in the crupt in the floor of the entrance appears every night and scares the cleaner. They are unable to keep a night cleaner and want the ghost eradicated. Dye tells Coffin he will have to dig up the tomb on Friday night and look for the metal plate that would identify who is buried there.

I apologize for this Review being so late, but I had a chance to have new kitchen countertops installed and that has been a lengthy process that kept me busy for several days.

Hope everyone is well, and busy writing a storm of words for 2012! Next Meeting will be Wednesday, January 18th at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. Really, really hope to see you then!

Lisa