THE REVIEW

ACCUSABLY, ANACHRONISTIC, AND TWO SCHEMING UNCLES BOATING TO THE BEAT

As you can see, Wednesday’s Meeting was full of tongue twisting pronunciations of words and phrases. Lots of fun with Jason, Luke, Charity, Annette, and new member, Kay Jordan, joining me here.

Charity read first, the next chapter in “Trixie Trouble”. We see Gravedigger and Donovan square off to fight. After a faulty start, Donovan comes back to win the match and Trixie is faced with losing a lot of money she didn’t have. This was a great chapter documenting the fight, very vivid.

Dressed in costume that she wears for SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism, Annette stood up to deliver a tale about three different stories of how the Selkie Folk came to be. Then she sang us a ballad, The Skye Boat Song. This was an amazing performance and we didn’t even have to pay for front row seats! Bravo, Annette, Bravo!

I read the next story, “It Was Time” from my Honey collection. This was about an outing with Honey up at Green Lake that had me struggling from the lakeshore up a winding track on a steep hillside in pursuit of the Lodge at Little Horse, and the subsequent stop of my trek at a cattle guard I couldn’t cross with my wobbly legs and two branches used as walking sticks. That was when I decided to take my cane with me whenever I went out with Honey.

Charity asked if I had submitted the story I read last time to Polar Expressions yet. I spent some time re-writing the ending and the story is ready to submit, but I still have to write a short author’s bio to go with the submission, as required. The deadline isn’t until July anyhow, if anyone else wants to submit a short story of 750 words or less.

Jason read his next chapter that shows us the appearance of the Nobella, Kwen’s and Tiber’s spiritual leaders. One of them, Bealunwit, knows who Damianos is, and it appears they are enemies. He threatens Damianos with a knife. Meanwhile, Tiber takes the mythical coin and hides it, though Kwen saw him do it. The plot thickens. And it was Jason who used the word ‘accusably’, which I erroneously questioned. It’s a synonym for ‘guiltily’.

Luke read the next scene where Dalin is waiting for the return of Sgt. Torch. While waiting, he runs the troops through battle training. When Torch returns, the Commander and Captain are with her and ask Dalin how he came to know so much about their strategy because there seems to be a leak of info as the enemy always seems to pre-empt their movements. They ask him where the hole in their strategy seems to be.

Kay told us she is working on a humorous skit where a wife is admitting her guilt to a crime of infidelity, which happened to be her eating her husband’s dessert. Kay said she likes comedy and wants to write in that genre.

At the end of the Meeting, I confessed I had been playing on my computer with a plot generator app. I filled in a detailed questionnaire, clicked the button, and the app spewed out a short story, which I read to the group. It was very nonsensical and had us all laughing. The things we will do to postpone our own writing! But maybe I can get a story of my own out of the two scheming uncles boating to the beat?

Margaret F. emailed me to say she was away in Tofino this week. Hope she’s having fun.

The next Meeting will be Wednesday, June 1st at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. I look forward to seeing you then.

Lisa A. Hatton
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