Meeting, 2nd November. Report

In Attendance:
Dick, Beryl, Liliane, Tony, Lauren, Jane, Gemma, Martin, Ally, Les, Trish, Dave and Barry (chair)
Apologies:
Peter

We had a notification for our members that there is a pub quiz at the end of November and that if we wanted to form a team then at least six should express their interest. Anyone with an interest could contact me in the first instance.

Now for the business of the day.

Whew!!!

What a meeting that was! From thirteen stories we had at least twelve competition winners. The imagination and talent of our members never ceases to amaze me. The members present and their contributions for our torchlight Halloween meeting were as follows.

DAVE. with 'Seductive eyes'. A man who strays and ends up as a human sacrifice.

DICK. with 'Umbrella' An Umbrella lent to a young girl appears on her grave the next day.

BERYL. with 'Lost'. a tale of two lost sisters, finding each other at the police station. The sisters were puppies.

LILIANE. with 'Trying to get rid of the ghost'. Tale of her young relations trying to exorcise a ghost in their bedroom.

TONY. with 'Food'. Another part of his long running saga of strange creatures and places.

LAUREN. with 'Trapped'. Our youngest member with a tale of young drivers and a burial while still alive?

JANE. with a contribution bearing no name but much fright. A Children of the Damned type story.

GEMMA. with 'Creature'. A new and gruesome variation of Neighbourhood Watch.

MARTIN and ALLY gave us two stories remarkably similar about Red Riding Hood, the Wolf and the Woodcutter. Needless to say there was much blood and ghastly behaviour.

LES. won't mind being classed as one of our older members, gave us a Halloween poem of sheer brilliance.

TRISH. with 'Storms'. as the title infers her eerie story blew through the meeting with chilling menace.

BARRY. with 'Continental Trucking'. A little anecdote with ten seconds of chill at the end. You had to be there!


As I said, this meeting was a great success and Gemma's biscuits were a welcome addition to our coffee break. Happy birthday to her for the 3rd of November and to Ally who is celebrating her birthday this weekend with a romantic break for two at Centre Parcs Firework weekend.

The next meeting dear Scribes will be on Tuesday the 16th November where the homework subject will be 'Treasure'.

Thanks to all who attended on Tuesday and to all who couldn't be there, you missed a good one. If my recollections of any of the stories stray from the original, please accept an old man's apologies, I was shaking with fear for most of the darkened meeting.

Bye for now.

Barry

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