Night Child “Dance-On” at August Writers Guild First Sunday Prose

August marks the return of the Bloomington Writers Guild’s “First Sunday Prose,” with this afternoon’s featured readers led by short fiction writer and novelist Carolyn Geduld (cf. December 1, 2019) with three excerpts from her just-published third book, THE STRUGGLE, about a young man’s coming of age and a local cult. She was followed by English-born poet and playwright Tonia Matthew (cf. January 30 2022, August 1 2021, et al.; also August 13, 10 2019, et al.) with a portion of a longer prose work in progress about a Londoner’s, Edith’s, afternoon spent with an older widow.

This was followed after the break by just three walk-on readers, with me in the middle with “Night Child,” an unpublished story about a young woman with dubious origins who loved to dance in a mid-1950s off-the-main-circuit jazz club. With clientele including Eastern European immigrants, a question arises of where, exactly, she might be from.

Then a final note, having just ended its June-July summer hiatus, First Sunday Prose will now skip another month in September, this to give way to Bloomington’s annual Fourth Street Arts Fair with its “Spoken Word Stage” over Labor Day Weekend (returning itself from a Covid forced two-year hiatus), with the next official First Sunday reading on October 2nd. And then, I might add, for November 6 one of the featured readers is tentatively scheduled to be . . . me.