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The trouble with Adam

I wrote this story for Round 8 of SPARK. To see the photograph that inspired it, go to http://www.getsparked.org/spark8/helen-whittaker-and-edite-haberman This story won second place in the June 2010 Global Short Story Competition at http://www.globalshortstories.net/index.html The trouble with Adam I’m waiting in the reception area at Happy Bunnies day care. In one corner of the room [...]

SPARK Round 7

Yes, it’s that time of the year again already: SPARK time. My partner this round was Cheryl Leibovitz. Being a total ignoramus as far as art is concerned, I feel most comfortable with ‘easy to understand’ representational art, so Cheryl’s abstract images pushed me out of my comfort zone – which is always the best place to [...]

Missing

Hot off the press:  the piece I’ve just written for SPARK – a quarterly collaborative project in which artists and writers rub sparks off each other. The story was written in response to a photograph by Jim Doran. Check out Jim’s piece Ancestor Moon which he created after reading  my poem Eclipse. I LOVE it! [...]