THE REVIEW

AUGUST JOTTINGS

Leah, Jim, Annette and Jason all joined me last night for our most recent Meeting of the Rams. Kristi is away on holidays. Margaret F. said she had to rewrite her blog she lost to cyberspace before it was posted. She also wants to travel here by bus from where she lives in Surrey and I told her the service in this area leaves much to be desired, and it is a long walk from the stops on 200th St. And if she has to transfer at the loop on Logan, it’s not the safest, especially in the dark at night. I live where Translink doesn’t. But we do have street parking.


Jim read Chapters 13 and 14 from “Coventry Ghosts – Book I”. This shows the death of the kitten, Sara, and how she decides to become a ghost who remains to haunt the coffee shop with Leanne. These chapters switched easily from a scene of sadness, to one of light and laughter, and then on to one showing Jason killing people to collect their souls for his master computer, hoping to find his dead parents somehow.

After Annette told us her escapade trying to catch a rat in her house, I decided to read one of my first ‘Honey’ stories, “Hostilities on the Home Front”. It tells of our house being invaded one spring by rats and the subsequent battle fought for supremacy of this dominion. Leah laughed and said she enjoyed the military references.

While I was visiting back east in Thunder Bay, I did have occasion to read several of my ‘Honey” stories to a varied group of my family and my daughter’s friends one evening at camp. They were very well received and one fellow came back the next day to ask what time the next reading would be! And several said they would be very happy to buy my book when it’s published. Now I just have to find a publisher.

Jason and Annette didn’t read anything. They have both been overwhelmed with family responsibilities this summer. Never thought I’d say this, but I think we need some rain to keep us inside and calm things down a bit. I am definitely done with this long, dry summer.

The next Meeting will be Wednesday, September 2nd at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. Hope to see you then and that everyone can do some writing in spite of the heat and smoke from fires and kids and relatives and health and work and vehicle issues. It’s all just grist for the mill and only makes us better writers!

Lisa A. Hatton
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