The Roll Call topic was once again won by Cathy Thorp

October’s Author*

Cathy Thorp

            Welcome, friends to the October country where something wicked this way comes in a graveyard for lunatics underneath the Halloween tree, where grow the golden apples of the sun.

            Farewell, summer!  That last dusty bottle of dandelion wine is my medicine for melancholy.

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you”, a quote from my favorite author, Ray Bradbury.  He spun worded webs of wonder through the tattoos of the Illustrated Man.

We took the tour through the Martian Chronicles in a future imagined where one could have a career as a Rocket Man, launched with the sound of thunder, quicker than the eye.

            “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them” is a warning and a promise from Fahrenheit 451. Now, and forever, somewhere a band is playing. Listen, learn, read on.