October First Sunday Prose Pre-Halloween Special

October’s Bloomington Writers Guild “First Sunday Prose and Open Mic” (see September 3, et al.) at Bloomington’s Juniper Gallery was billed as an earlyish Halloween-themed session. Or at least a bit spooky. It is, after all, the start of October, albeit a warm sunny Sunday afternoon still.

Along these lines the second featured reader, Poetry Detectives co-creater and long-time member of Bloomington’s Women Writing for (a) Change Rebekah Spivey offered an excerpt from her just-published novel, MARIGOLDS IN BOXES, but as she explained a “spooky” excerpt.  While I as first featured reader led off with a short short, “The Junkie” on zombieism as an addiction, followed with as the main course “River Red” from my 2013 collection THE TEARS OF ISIS.

These in turn were followed by a disappointingly brief “open mic” with only two takers, both of high quality, Writers Guild members Joan Hawkins and Tonia Matthew.  But none the less a session, as a whole, visibly enjoyed by all who attended.