Fifth Tuesday Events

On the fifth Tuesdays, both the first-and-third group and the second-and-forth group get together for a Tuesdays with Story social. Usually it is a potluck at someone's house or a public place. Each time, the writing challenge is different.

September 30, 7pm

Writing Challenge: Foodies unite! Write a short-short story -- any genre -- poem or essay of fewer than 400 words in which food is a major ingredient.

Would ANY “Tuesdays” writer, or wannabe or guest intentionally miss a FIFTH TUESDAY ?
Especially THIS one with its fun challenge or all foodies…or eaters. I mean, you can write ANYthing you want about food AND…
you can sit and enjoy DELICIOUS POTLUCK FOOD with interesting (if sometimes strange) friends.
Of course there’ll be sinful and gooey desserts, wines & sodas, spicy and mild, gloppy and crispy, rolled and bowled, hot and cold, genuinely-scrumptilishious dishes. There’ll be laughter and tears from stories and poems read aloud to boisterous applause.

And NO WORK or critiquing to do.
Just fun, food and friends at:

FIFTH TUESDAY
Tuesday September 30^th
7:00 to 9:00PM

Ruth and Pete Smelser will host us at the clubhouse in their condo complex in Fitchburg
DIRECTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Previous 5th Tuesday Challenges

Write a story in exactly 69 words (download)

Featuring: Leigh Gregg, Shel Ellestad (3), Wanda Church, Jerry Peterson, Tim Mickleburgh, Jeff Herwig, Jack Freiburger, Ruth Smelser, Alison Janssen (2), Jim Cue, Jaime Nelson, Cathy Riddle, Spike Pederson, Kathleen Hoag, Walter Simson, Josh Brooks, Emma Martinson, Ben LeRoy, Ed Chapman, John Schneller, Karen Zethmayr, Kashmira Sheth, Bharti Solanki, Chris Lacy, Leslie Huber, Bill Dries, Jeff Franz, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Konrath, Rob Walker, William Kent Krueger, Sandi Walker

First Line Stories -- May 2006 (download)

Directions: Chose one of the 23 first lines from our list of novels and use that line as the beginning of your story, song, essay, poem, haiku, hiccup, whatever. Word length: 200 words

Featuring: Cathy Riddle, Jerry Peterson (3), Terry Hoffman, Brandy Larson, Leigh Gregg (3), Carolyn Cassel, Spike Pederson, John Schneller, Jeff Herwig, Devin Quamme, Shel Ellestad (6), Sandi Walker

How I Murdered Sam -- October (download)

Directions: There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, however, there are millions of interesting and creative ways to kill the #$#@&. In honor of Halloween, the writing challenge for October 31st is "How I murdered Sam." (Notice Sam can be male or female.) In 500 words or less, tell us how you did it.

Featuring: Spike Pederson (3), Chris Lacey, Cathy Riddle, Shel Ellestad (4), Jaime Nelson (2), Leigh Gregg, Terry Hoffman, Jerry Peterson, Donna Coughlin, Becky Gehrmann, Chris Gehrmann, Sandi Walker, Gary Anderson, Jake Probasco, Jack Freiburger, Tammy Kramer, Tim Mickleburgh

New Year's Resolutions Gone Awry -- January (download)

Directions: Can be first-person truth -- it really happened to you -- or first- or third-person fiction, you made the whole thing up. In 500 words or less, tell us about a New Year's resolution that crashed.

Featuring: Marge Smith Peterson, Spike Pederson, Jerry Peterson, Cathy Riddle, Shel Ellestad, Leigh Gregg, Sandi Walker, Chris Gehrmann, Millie Mader, Susan Gloss, Brandy Larson, Juliette Crane, Mindy Habecker, Trish Mackey, Karen Zethmayr, John Schneller

Our Boy Jerry -- May 2006 (download)

The secret compiled story as a tribute to Jerry Peterson.

Featuring: Leigh Gregg (2), Carolyn Cassel, Paul Zaziski, Spike Pederson, Shel Ellestad, Jaime Nelson, Karen Zethmayr, John Schneller

What I did on my summer vacation -- August (download)

Featuring: John Schneller, Karen Zethmayr, Jeff Herwigg, Wanda Church, Emma Martinson, Bharti Solanki, Hopi Gesteland, Ruth Smelser, Spike Pederson, Sel Ellestad (3), Jaime Nelson, Leigh Gregg, Terry Hoffman, Jerry Peterson (2), Chris Gehrmann

A Guide to Unique Places (download)

This publication is a guide to those small corner bars, hidden rural nightspots and hard to find urban watering holes that are found in every corner of Wisconsin. With our rich tradition of alcoholism, ethnic diversity, regional dialects and town characters, Wisconsin has fostered a hundred places that are hard to imagine, but now, easy to visit!

We have sent out intrepid explorers with notepads and I-books to ferret out the most interesting, unusual and unsung places in the state where you can legally alter your mind and liver. They have reported back from every corner and county to help us compile this guidebook.

The book is divided into sections by regions: The southeast where urban ethnic bars still serve goulash with dark rye. The North where the woodsman and lumberjack tradition survives and even flourishes. The Northwest where deep woods and Norwegians produce places featuring lutefish, lefsa, and very polite depression. The South where liberal Madison bars insist on their own version of reality and Janesville bars try to avoid it. The Southwest, the oldest part of the state, where the traditions of lead mining and strong drink first took root in our native soil.

We'll look in turn at various establishments, tell you how to find them, what makes them special, what food and drink is particular to them, and what memorable personage you may chance to meet. So open the next page, and get drunk on the culture of Wisconsin Taverns, Dives and Watering Holes.

Featuring: Marnie Schulenburg, Jim Cue, Rebecca Rettenmund, John Schneller, Spike Pederson, Jerry Peterson, Cathy Riddle, Jack Freiburger, Terry Hoffman, Mindy Habecker, Karen Zethmayr, Ruth Smelser, Thomas Jannusch, Carrie Greenquist-Peterson, Bill Dries, Sarah Miller, Donna Coughlin