Dean Writers’Circle Report It was a full membership that gathered in the familiar surroundings of The Fountain Inn, Parkend recently to enjoy another evening of readings and comment. John Stanley opened the readings with a further instalment from his story of ‘The Catalyst’. Here we find that the homecoming of the brother Tom makes clear the ownership of the newly arrived lady’s attentions, but it is in her smile that the other brother Eli senses the danger. It does not take the lady long to establish her role in the house and it is not what either brother expects. A new story by Felicity Edwards from her ‘Storyteller Gene’ series is ‘The Japanese Story’. This opening episode tells us of the arrival of a new child to peasant parents in pre-war Japan. As he grows older he develops into a young but expert teller of stories and invents a fascinating way of presenting his tales to others. Another story from Toni Wilde’s series of ‘The Street’, followed. This one, called ‘The Funeral’, tells how Mrs Crabbe presides over the placing of her husband’s body in the coffin in the parlour and then has to cope with the funeral wake, sitting and listening beside the body as neighbours fill the room drinking and gossiping aloud. Anthony Reeve then read us a second commentary on the television programme ‘Foyle’s War’. In this episode a German lands in the UK pretending to be a parachutist in order to kill a German traitor. Unfortunately for him, Foyle intervenes. An ‘Arthurian Mystery’, was Averil Sumners’ contribution to the evening. This opening extract tells how George once found a piece of rock with ARTU written on it. It gave him an idea for a book he was writing about chiefs of Britain, a work that had struck a black patch. Receiving a letter from an old friend gives him the notion to take a break and visit said friend. Another member then read a continuation from her novel of the problems in Northern Ireland. In this extract a young lady is stunned by the effect of a bomb blast and is aided by a young man. Though attracted to each other, it appears that by a strange coincidence he is the bomber and she is a highly trained British Intelligence agent. The opening prologue to a new novel tentatively entitled ‘Second Coming’, was Maureen Turner’s reading to round up the evening. It seems that in the year 150 BC, a party of angels were preparing to leave this planet where they had lived for many years. They were looked upon as gods by the local indigenous people and felt this was unacceptable. They did however leave behind them some remarkable giant sculptures in the desert, which could only be seen from very high up in the air
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