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Volume 6, Issue 3
Spring 2007

 

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CELL PHONE CAMERA WINNERS 

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by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein

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Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein is a college student currently majoring in fine arts in Oregon.

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Family Breakfast
by Abha Iyengar

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Abha Iyengar has been published in print and online. Her publication credits include an article on Population published by Wiley Eastern in Science, Technology and Development, prize winning haiku in Life Positive, and she is among the Kota Press Poetry Anthology Contest winners. She has been published in Moondance, Breakaway Books, Gowanus Books, Insolent Rudder, Door Knobs and Body Paint, Writers Hood, Raven Chronicles, Enlightened Practice, Writers Against War, among others. Her interests and writing focus on gender,human psyche, yoga, spirituality, and travel. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and "Riyaz" writer's group at British Council.

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Banana Ballet
by Casey West

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Casey West is an amateur photographer and professional software developer. He lives in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania with his wife and three children. Half of his waking hours are used by Socialtext to make great social software applications. The rest are spent behind the lens, cooking, or taking a beating from his kids. On rare occasions they all happen at once.

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Swinging in Mid-Air
by Abha Iyengar

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Abha Iyengar has been published in print and online. Her publication credits include an article on Population published by Wiley Eastern in Science, Technology and Development, prize winning haiku in Life Positive, and she is among the Kota Press Poetry Anthology Contest winners. She has been published in Moondance, Breakaway Books, Gowanus Books, Insolent Rudder, Door Knobs and Body Paint, Writers Hood, Raven Chronicles, Enlightened Practice, Writers Against War, among others. Her interests and writing focus on gender,human psyche, yoga, spirituality, and travel. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and "Riyaz" writer's group at British Council.

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Chain Link Fence
by Henry Linder

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Henry Linder is interested in figuring out how to cultivate phone-cams as a medium unto themselves; until then, he's producing poor photos like this one.

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Carlo
by Valli Boldini

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Valli Boldini grew up in London and now lives in Venice, Italy. She has been a writer for the past six years. Some of her on line articles/stories have appeared in: A Collection of Words 4; the Family Values E-zine, Voicesnet Anthology 11, in Mama's Kitchen and Wincyclopedia. Her in print pieces have been published in Woman's Weekly, Bella, and Everywoman. She has written and published the lyrics for 2 CDs - Searchin' and Missin' 2Day.

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by Becky Soto

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Becky Soto is a former entertainment business computer professional who quit that 24/7 line of work to focus on her creative side. She grew up in Philly and has lived and worked in New York City and Los Angeles. She currently resides in Ventura County where she just finished her first feature length screenplay. Becky's short, short story "Labels" was recently published in Six Little Things Issue Number Five Winter 2007.

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Bat Beer
by Carla Gericke

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Born in South Africa and raised in a diplomatic family, Carla Gericke has lived and traveled all over the world. She's currently enrolled in the MFA program at The City College of New York, where she was the recipient of the Stark Award for Outstanding Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Inkwell, Promethean, Pindeldyboz and elsewhere. Carla lives with her husband and three cacti in an old loft in Chinatown, where she's working on her first novel. Carla's cell is more camera, less phone.

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by Cally Taylor

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Cally Taylor lives in Brighton and works in London, United Kingdom. She has been writing short stories forever but only got serious about writing in 2005. Since then she has been published online (SmokeLong, Smokebox, Espresso Fiction, Susurrus) and in print (Aesthetica magazine, Woman's Own magazine, Pastoral Pastimes anthology, 1,620 minutes anthology) and has won or been placed in a handful of competitions. When she's not writing she's taking photos at Heaven's Heathens gigs, listening to music, watching films and thinking up new stories.

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Free the Chairs!
by Robert Timmerberg

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Robert Timmerberg, who goes by Databob, is a tech-junkie turned photographer. Having always had an interest in photography, and now equipped with a T-mobile SDA always at his side, has started taking "surprise photos," when the opportunity arises and art may be born. He's even started his own blog with some of these opportunistic creations: http://www.splashblog.com/databob/.