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    Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016
    Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016
    Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016
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    Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016

    By Hank Quense

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    The Write Group works out of the library in Montclair NJ and consists of over 400 members. The members work on a variety of writing projects including fiction (long and short), memoirs, essays and poetry. The main purpose of the Write Group is to encourage and encourage the members in their writing endeavors. The Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016 is the second anthology dedicated to showcasing the talent of the Write Group. In this edition, thirty-nine members are represented. There are eleven fiction works, eight essays, four memoirs, fifteen poems and a monologue. There’s something for everyone.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHank Quense
    Release dateJun 11, 2016
    ISBN9781310046711
    Montclair Write Group Sampler 2016
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    Hank Quense

    Hank Quense writes humorous and satiric sci-fi and fantasy stories. He also writes and lectures about fiction writing and self-publishing.  He and his wife Pat usually vacation in another galaxy or parallel universe. They also time travel occasionally when Hank is searching for new story ideas. Other books by Hank Quense Fiction: Gundarland Stories Tales From Gundarland Falstaff’s Big Gamble Wotan’s Dilemma The King Who Disappeared Princess Moxie Series Moxie’s Problem Moxie’s Decision Queen Moxie Zaftan Troubles Series Contact Confusion Combat Convolution Sam Klatze Gongeblazn Non-fiction: The Author Blueprint Series of books is written to assist writers and authors in getting the job done. Creating Stories: Book 1 How to Self-publish and Market a Book: Book 2 Book Marketing Fundamentals: Book 3 Business Basics for Authors: Book 4 Fiction Writing Workshops for Kids: Book 5 Writing Stories: Book 7 Publication date to be announced Links? You want links? Here you go: Hank’s website: http://hankquense.org Hank's Facebook fiction page: https://www.facebook.com/StrangeWorldsOnline?ref=hl Twitter: https://twitter.com/hanque99 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanque/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hankquense/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3002079.Hank_Quense Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/hank-quense

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      Published by Strange Worlds Publishing

      Copyright 2016 Hank Quense

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      ISBN 9781310046711

      Published by Strange Worlds Publishing at Smashwords 2016

      First Publication 2016

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword
      Acknowledgements
      Essays
      Fiction
      Memoirs
      Poetry
      Monologues
      Author Listings
      About This Book

      Foreword

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      By Hank Quense

      The beginnings of the Write Group are lost in the mists of the past and go all the way back into the last millennium. The legends say that in the beginning a small band of plucky writers gathered in the Montclair Library to form a support group and to comment on each others' work.

      From this humble start, the Write Group grew.  And grew.  And grew.  Today, it has over four hundred members.  Every week, these members get an email that lists the activities scheduled for that coming week.  These activities may include poetry meetings, support group meetings, memoir meetings, novel writing meetings, one-act plays and a host of other activities.  The total activities each month often exceed thirty.

      As the membership grew, naturally some of the members moved out of area and the state and even out the country.  These vagabonds stay in touch with the group and sometimes join a meeting via Skype. 

      The odd thing about the Writing Group is this; there is no one in charge!  There is no president or board of directors, or even dues.  It just functions really well through the efforts of volunteers such as the eighteen Write Group members who worked on this Sampler and whose efforts made it possible.

      Acknowledgments

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      This book didn’t happen by accident.  It required a lot of work by a lot of people performing a lot of tasks. Voluntarily!  These volunteers and their assignments are listed below.

      Project Director :

      Hank Quense

      Submissions Managers :

      Nancy Taiani:

      Niraj Shah

      Readers :

      Donna O’ Donnell Figurski

      Rose Blessing

      Keith Biesiada:

      Mirela Trofin

      Dilis Burke 

      Paula Maliandi

      Erin Roll

      Nancy Taiani

      Joel Foulon

      reg e gaines

      Ron Bremner

      Copy editors :

      Martha Moffet

      Helen Lippman

      Dilis Burke

      Barbara Witmer

      Formatting & Production :

      Hank Quense

      Publishe r:

      Strange Worlds Publishing

      The cover was designed by Gary Tenuta, a cover artist who creates all the Strange Worlds Publishing covers.  Visit Gary’s website by following this link: http://garyvaltenuta.blogspot.com

      The autumn leaves painting on the cover is called Autumn Breeze  and is an original work by Nancy Taiani.  Nancy says the leaves are as diverse as the writing in this edition of the Sampler.

      Nancy-Jo Taiani lives in New Jersey with her husband of 38 years. She enjoys painting, writing, gardening, and hiking in the spare time left from advocating for the environment and social justice.

      Nancy-Jo's watercolor and acrylic paintings have been exhibited in various venues. Her books,  Healing Father John - A Journey of Contrariness, Connection and Change, about her relationship with a charismatic and capricious priest and A Night of Power: A Ramadan Story , an illustrated book to introduce 7 to 10 year-olds to the Muslim holy month, are available on Amazon.com.

      Essays

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      Red Scare in Newark

      By Helen Lippman

      Sixty-one years ago, in the spring and summer of 1955, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) held hearings in Newark. Harold Lippman, a Newark physician, former Army captain—and my father’s younger brother—was one of more than thirty men and women hauled in for questioning.

      Like my uncle’s three children, I was a red-diaper baby. My parents belonged to the American Communist Party throughout my childhood, and in 1955, I committed a treasonous act of my own. I was seven.

      

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      During a sleepover at my best friend’s house, I defied my parents, passing on my rudimentary understanding of what they had taught but forbidden my sister and me to tell: the countries everyone thought were bad were really good because people there shared everything equally. We had no idea why that was deemed by some to be a bad thing. All we knew was that to talk about it could bring us ruin. My indiscretion so terrified me that I never said a word about my family’s Communist beliefs for the next twenty years.

      I didn’t know about my uncle’s brush with HUAC until someone read from a transcript of the hearing at his eighty-seventh birthday party in 2002. McCarthyism and the Red Scare had long since lost their grip on the country, but I was still shocked by the boldness of Harold’s testimony nearly half a century earlier.

      When told by an HUAC investigator that we were reliably informed you were the chairman of the doctors’ cell of the Communist Party in Newark, he calmly replied, I didn’t say that, then reprimanded his interrogator for posing more than one question at a time.

      Are you withdrawing all other questions? he demanded when asked whether he was a member of the Communist Party. After multiple reassurances that this was indeed the case, Harold took another tack: Then I must decline to answer on the grounds that the very existence of this committee is a violation of the fundamental doctrine of separation of powers upon which our democracy is based…

      He went on to assert that HUAC was violating Article III of the Constitution, as well as the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments. When he began ticking off the provisions of the First Amendment, the committee chair interjected, Just say ‘the First Amendment.’ We know what it contains. We are lawyers, and you are a doctor.

      That quieted Harold not at all. He continued his litany of reasons not to respond, including a fundamental American right to be left alone. When it became evident that further dialogue would only yield more of the same, the interrogators dismissed him and called the next witness.

      My uncle’s picture appeared on the front page of The Newark Star-Ledger soon after, along with photos of three Newark teachers who also testified. All three pleaded the Fifth and lost their jobs. Not so for Harold, as there was no one to fire him. He was a self-employed general practitioner with a constantly crowded office on Newark’s Elizabeth Avenue, committed to caring for city residents even when they couldn’t afford to pay.

      Like most Americans subpoenaed by HUAC, Harold was accompanied by and was allowed to confer with an attorney. But the lawyers were forbidden to address the committee and could be cited for contempt of Congress for failure to abide by the House rules. Witnesses who refused to answer questions put before them or to name names faced contempt charges and possible imprisonment as well.

      But the infamous blacklist was a far more common and insidious consequence.

      Hollywood ’s blacklist achieved notoriety in 1947, when ten prominent screenwriters and directors were banned from working in the entertainment industry. Within a few years, the names of dozens of actors, writers and musicians were added to the list. The Red Scare continued throughout the 1950s and, although a precise number of those affected is impossible to come by, an estimated ten thousand Americans lost their jobs—and their livelihoods.

      After the teachers were fired, Newark’s seven thousand city employees were ordered to sign loyalty oaths and fill out questionnaires about present and past affiliations. No sooner had the forms been handed out than the city council did an abrupt about-face. The requirement was tabled, according to The New York Times, because the council member who had initiated it objected to asking staffers about their participation in any of the organizations on the US attorney general’s subversives list.

      Newark academics were targeted, too, as were tenants. The state supreme court upheld a decision by Newark College of Engineering to fire a faculty member who refused to sign a loyalty oath. Rutgers University announced automatic dismissal of any faculty member belonging to the Communist Party and forced out three professors. The Newark Housing Authority threatened to evict two tenants who refused to swear they did not belong to subversive groups.

      Harold Lippman, meanwhile, practiced medicine in Newark for decades. Shortly after the birth of his grandchildren, he wrote them a letter describing his experiences in World War II, when he landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy one day after D-Day and served as a medic. He was awarded a Bronze Star, a Presidential Unit Citation and a Combat Medical Badge, among other commendations. When he died in 2005 at eighty-nine, Dr. Lippman received a military burial at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington—a fitting farewell for an American who loved his country and worked

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