THE RAM’S HEAD REVIEW

Oct. 28, 2007

Thursday was a dark and starry night, and four of us kept the fires of creativity burning. Ellie, Carolann and Margaret joined me to share the jelly I’d made.

Margaret didn’t want to read more of her Peabody collection until Bob returns. So she brought an article of hers in response to my request for ghost stories that was printed in The Vancouver Sun on October 26, 2004. Later that night, Margaret’s sister died. And the story was about Margaret seeing her deceased Mother years before, lying in a dresser drawer at 6:00 a.m., and noticing the brightly shining engagement ring on her finger that her Dad had given her. Margaret learned later that was the time her father died.

Carolann brought her own true ghost story, a collection of very eerie incidents that happened in the last house she and her family had lived in. She said she was never so glad to leave a place as she was to leave that house.

Carolann also read a short story that is a personification of a Canadian five dollar bill and relates the journey it takes from the time it leaves the mint. Quite amusing, and we hope she’ll continue the journey.

I read a short first person piece I had written about the progression through the years of listening to music, first by a simple radio and finally by an MP3 player today, and decrying how complicated it has all become.

Then I read Chapter 46 in my novel that show’s Cam’s girlfriend, Lucy, being stabbed by her brother because she’s going to turn him in for arson.

Ellie didn’t have anything to read. Bob is still watching the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. Elaine was very busy this past week. And I haven’t heard from anyone else.

Next meeting here at my place Thursday, Nov. 1st at 7:00 p.m. Hope to see you then. Happy writing in the meantime.

Lisa