Moles Creative Writing Group: 2023

These are the stories, for what they are worth, that I have written so far for the Moles Creative Writing Group during 2023.

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Date	Chairperson	Topic	My Story
January 24th	Raymond	An Unexpected Consequence	Contrary to Expectations History is full of incidents that have unexpected consequences.
February 28th	Pat	A Climate Activist	The Ostrich and the Optimist "Hello, Tom, you old beggar!" cried Bill as Tom came into the bar. "Ain’t seen you for a while." (As I was not at the February meeting, I combined the February & March topics to present to the March meeting.)
March 28th	Gerry	A Humorous Conversational/Dialogue Piece Based on Two Friends Disagreeing
April 25th	Peter	Pilgrimage	My Pilgrimage Chaucer tells that us when nature awakes in April people long to go on pilgrimages.
May 23rd	Jo	A Story Told by a Non-Human Species	The Medlingham Yew Let me introduce myself, dear readers. I am the Medlingham Yew, ...
June 27th	Wendy	Piece Inspired by a) quotation or b) proverb or common expression or c) song title or piece of music	Alle Menschen werden Brüder ‘Alle Menschen werden Brüder’ ‘People all become as brothers’ Was the hope proclaimed by Schiller, ...
July 25th	Robert	A Memorable Encounter	Zak's Memorable Encounter "Ah," said [Zak's] companion, "my world ended in both fire and ice." "What?" Zak said, a little startled.
No open meeting in August
September 26th	Robert	Preparation for Arts Alive 2023 and a 'Golden Oldie'
October 24th	Raymond	"At Home with the Moles Writing Group" (Arts Alive 2023)	I read Alle Menschen werden Brüder, which I had written for our June meeting.
November 28th	Jill	Prologue or Sequel to a Well Known Work of Fiction	Odysseus Finds Peace Penelope ... had sensed how world-weary her husband had become; she hoped he would find peace at last.
December 19th	Trevor	The Escape	The Escape from Polyphemos Of Odysseus is my story And although some bits are gory, It’s a jolly yarn I tell of his escape.