Summer Writing Retreat Submission: Gerald Warfield

Itwas Adark and Stor Mynight

by Gerald Warfield

Itwas Adark and Stor Mynight lounged at the edge of the purple pool. Stor raised her crystal glass, delicately, in her pincer claw. “Itwas,” she said, “there may be no gods to bless you, but you bless yourself with this act of kindness and compassion.”

Itwas raised her crystal, too, though not as high, and spread her third pair of legs in a sign of deprecation. “My dear, no one is more deserving than you. The accident that destroyed your eggs last season was tragic in the extreme. The least I can do for so unfortunate a friend is to provide a nest pool.”

“But the silver it must have cost …”

“Nonsense. My barnacle was already here. I only had to have the pool itself carved, and the entrance channels.”

Stor raised her eye stalks and looked out onto the blue ocean. Great waves broke upon the rocks only a few spans from

Natalie Goldberg Book Signing

Natalie Goldberg Book Signing

Congregation Beth Israel

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7 p.m.

Best selling author Natalie Goldberg shares her wisdom on writing and
life in her latest book, Old Friend From Faraway: The Practice of
Writing Memoir.

Goldberg’s ground-breaking book, Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The
Writer Within (1986), cracked open the world of creativity and started
a revolution in the way writing is practiced in America. The book has
sold over one million copies and been translated into fourteen
languages. Since then she has written nine other books, including the
novel Banana Rose.

For more information, call Jennifer Smith, 454-6806.