SUMMER
2003
Celebrating our first year of publication.  flashquake. TM.
 
Spiritual Ground by Thomas Paul Sterner-Howe
Spiritual Ground by Thomas Paul Sterner-Howe
Editorial

The Players:  Masthead
Publisher's Page:  Volunteer Burnout

EDITOR'S CORNER:
Musings About Art and Craft by Roger D. Paris

 

Contributors
Fiction

Unexpected Rain by Margaret A. Frey
Stones by Dianne McKnight
Canned Peaches by Jenny L. Collins
Things We Don't Talk About by Alvaro Rodriguez
Token Life by Lenora K. Rogers
Cat's Gone Astray by Sara Joan Berniker
To Protect and Serve by Patti Weisgerber
Nearly Spring by Shane Michael Guy

Nonfiction

To Begin Again by Marge Tolchin
Natural Death by Carole Moore
Falling by A. Leigh Jones
Darth Vega by Peggy Duffy
Lost and Found by D. L. Mayhew
Harvests by Danielle LaVaque-Manty
Falling for Him by Jennifer L. Baum
Choreographed by Time by Wayne Scheer

Poetry

The Fall and Rise by John Grey
do not insult me by E. Bills
Junior by Dianne Thomas
Autumn by Khristina Chess
Sleeping in Sheila's Hostel by David Atkinson
The Ballad of Raymond and Ruthie, Or: Why Second Chances Work, Away From Home by Melanie Faith
Illuminations by Melanie Faith
Proud Parent by Susan Richardson

 
Editor's Picks

Vanitha Sankaran: War Letters by Susan Scott
David Shapiro: Raven Rock by Don Caudill
Roger Paris: Before School by Lorie Shaw
Debi Orton: Weight by Emmett Stinson

 
Gallery

A Note from Art Director Roger Paris:

The gallery for this issue features the work of three writers who decided to try their hands at the visual arts.


THOMAS PAUL {WORDWULF} STERNER-HOWE

"Reaching for the roots of my Cherokee ancestry, I finally discovered my Spiritual Ground, the place my Children may find me when I die. Last summer flames consumed much of Colorado's woodland but this place I have named 'The Thin Woods' was spared."

Spiritual Ground

 
ALLEN McGILL

"Sunrise: as common as a new day, yet each unique. Influenced by time, mood, place and circumstance, each of us views the world as no other can."

Flanders Sunrise

 
K. I. M.

"I seem to do my best work when I'm bored out of my mind at work, or school.
For instance, I created these three pieces ('Cold Brutha 4,' 'Blues Brutha 4' and
'Almost There Girl 1') as an alternative to staring out into space, waiting for the phone to ring… "

Blues Brutha 4
Cold Brutha 4
Almost There Girl 1

 

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