Robert Paul Blumenstein, "We Come to Sing"
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Robert Paul Blumenstein resides in Richmond, Virginia, where he was awarded
an MFA in playwriting from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a full-time
writer having written not only for stage and film, but also has a published
novel, Flirtin' with Jesus, the first book of The Ascension
Trilogy. The second book of the trilogy will be released in 2002.
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Frank Reynolds, "The Invitation" *SECOND
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A Scotsman, Frank Reynolds taught English and Italian at colleges both
here and in Europe. He writes a Scottish History column for a British magazine,
and edits a college newspaper. He moved from the San Francisco area to a
cabin in the Sierra foothills in 1995, where he tutors English and Italian
professionally at the local college, and writes whenever he can.
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Tessa Jones, "Soldiers and Dandelions"
*THIRD PLACE*
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Tessa Jones, originally from Miami, Florida, has been fascinated by the
human psyche for as long as she can remember. Along with "Soldiers and
Dandelions", Tessa has also completed a novel entitled "Fragments", a
psychological thriller about a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder
(formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder). She is hard at work on her
second novel, "Redemption", about a female serial killer. Tessa has previously
sold one short story, The Weaver to an online publication.
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Bettye D. Grogan, "Miss Willa Wembly"
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Bettye is a native Kentuckian, is married, a mother of three, and
a grandmother of seven. She and her husband, both recently retired,
stay busy with gardening, church, community activities, and (most important
to Bettye) she now has time to write! Bettye also belongs to state
and local writing organizations. She wrote her first story at age
eleven and has since written books for children, poetry, songs, and a short
novel. Bettye thanks her Hoptown Writers colleagues for keeping
her enthused and writing.
Paul Perry, "Close to Home"
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Paul Perry has been writing short fiction for thirty years with more than
150 stories published, most of them in literary magazines. He had a collection
of 24 short stories entitled Street People published in October, 2000,
by Pocol Press of Cliftron, VA. Paul, in his late teens, spent most of two
years living on the streets and he mostly writes about homeless people,
hitchhikers, prostitutes, outsiders, people Paul refers to as "Dispossessed
People."
Check out Paul's web page at Scribes Valley
Elaine Elizabeth Papp, "Celebration of Love"
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Married for over 30 years to her first love Richard, Elaine enjoys writing
about a romantic innocence rarely found in today's fast-paced world. Her
two grown sons and their wives have unknowingly been the source for many
a short story while she is counting on the antics of Jonathan, her first
grandchild, to inspire many more. Having lived for the past five years in
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, Elaine and her husband enjoy bicycling
at the Washington Crossing Historic Park and along the Delaware-Raritan Canal.
"Celebration of Love" is her first publication.
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Jennifer Antonacci, "The Abduction"
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Jennifer is a 1999 graduate of Villanova University with a BA in Human
Services and a double minor in Psychology and Sociology. She grew up in Wyckoff,
NJ and now resides in Hoboken, where she commutes to her Human Resources
position in New York City's World Financial Center. Jennifer discovered an interest
in writing while in the third grade when she turned a simple writing task
into something much more than was expected. She was warmly applauded for
her efforts by the reading teacher, but still had to redo the
assignment.
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Vincent Guiliano, "The Last Cool Summer"
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Vincent Guiliano was born and raised in Fairview, NJ and attended Rutgers
University where he graduated in 1975 with a BA in Psychology and a "minor"
in creative writing. He now lives with his family in Southern California.
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Liz Morrison, "The Meaning of Meat"
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Liz Morrison is a freelance writer living in San Diego. Her work has been published in Sinister Wisdom, From These Walls and on GenerationJ.com. Liz also writes feature stories and a monthly opinion column for San Diego's Update newspaper.
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Husein Taherbhai, "Nursery Land Blues"
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Husein Taherbhai was born in Bahrain and lived his childhood years in
India. He has traveled to many different parts of the world and is
currently working as a Psychometrician with The Psychological Corporation:
Harcourt Educational Measurement. Husein received his doctorate from the
University of South Florida and has been published in various scientific
journals. He has also presented several papers at the National Council of
Measurement in Education. In his spare time, Husein relaxes by painting in
mix-media, and writing short stories and poems. Currently, he is
intermittently writing a screen play which he hopes to complete by the end
of 2003.
Gail Cauble Gurley, "The Message"
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Gail published a collection of inspirational short stories entitled Tales From the Sunroom in 2001. It has been well accepted and acclaimed. Her new novel entitled The Bird House: A Gift of Hope was released in December, 2002. It is an inspirational story of a young family in New York during the Great Depression and their struggles to survive. Reviews on this latest work have been excellent. She resides in North Carolina with her husband of 32 years. They have a daughter and three grandchildren in Houston, Tx. She earned a B. A. in psychology and an M. Ed in education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Writing has been the realization of a lifelong dream, and she credits her success to the encouragement and support she has received from her family and many friends.
Check out Gail's Web Page at Scribes Valley
Craig Rondinone, "The Dead Zone"
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Craig Rondinone is a syndicated fantasy sports columnist for SportsTicker,
a sports news service located in Jersey City, New Jersey. His weekly columns
have appeared on web sites for ESPN, Sporting News, Yahoo and
Excite. Craig lives in Brick, New Jersey and enjoys the finer
things in life (pro-wrestling, soft tacos and deep thinking).
NEW - Craig's new book
Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode (PublishAmerica)
is now available from the publisher and will be in bookstores March 2004.
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Christopher T. Bowne, "The Witness"
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Christopher was born in 1973 in Newport Beach, CA. In his youth he spent
a lot of time drawing, ignoring his studies, and obsessing over movies, girls,
music, and skateboards. He holds a degree in Mathematics from UC Berkley.
He began writing diligently last year after a 10-year hiatus. He now works
in San Francisco and resides in Oakland.
Jessica W. Hench, "The Artist's Studio"
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Jessica Hench, originally from Suffield, Connecticut is a student at Roanoke College
in Salem, Virginia. She is an English major pursuing teaching certification.
While this is her first short story, she has had several poems published and
hopes to publish novels and children's stories in the future.
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Janice Lynn Mather, "Autumn"
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Janice Lynn Mather was born December 29, 1981 in Nassau, Bahamas. She
holds an Associate of Arts degree in Language and Literature, and currently
works as a news reporter for The Nassau Guardian newspaper. Her main career
goal is to prove that it is perfectly possible for a Bahamian woman to make
a decent living from creative writing. Autumn is her first published
work.
Miller Chandler, "Road Rage"
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Miller Chandler is a certified personal trainer at Belle Meade Country
Club in Nashville, Tennessee. Road Rage is his first submission for
publication.
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Ann G. Thomas, "Charles Edward Cunningham"
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Ann G. Thomas: teacher, writer and psychotherapist. In private practice in California as a psychotherapist since 1978 with specialties in child development and geriatrics. Writes both fiction and non-fiction including numerous magazine articles on aging. Her book, "The Women We Become" (Prima, 1997) was recently reprinted in paperback and translated into three languages for overseas sale.
Visit Ann's web site here
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Charity Tahmaseb,
"Diary of a Seduction"
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While working fulltime as a technical writer, Charity Tahmaseb also writes short and long fiction. Her first published short story appeared in the April 2000 issue of Futures magazine. Her story in the December 2000 issue of Futures placed third in their "Fire to Fly" contest and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize award. Charity lives in Minnesota with her husband Bob, son Andrew, daughter Kyra, and Dalmatian Toby.
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Charles L. McDermott, "Hitting on Women"
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Charles L. McDermott, born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, began verbally composing stories even before starting school, where disrupting classes became a vocation for him. His elementary years required six different schools: three due to family relocations, the other three because he was "asked" to relocate. Things improved in high school, however, and Charles received honors and a Chemistry Degree in college. He went to Vietnam and was shot at. Fortunately the bullets missed. It was then back to college for an MBA, and for the last eighteen years he was employed as a civilian at an army base near his hometown of Aberdeen, MD. His wife, tiring of his talking about story ideas and claims that he could write, bought him a computer and unloaded a shoebox of story ideas. To date, Charles has written thirty-two short stories, five novellas and final drafts of two novels. Women play a prominent role in his writings, displaying sweetness and sadness, while wrapped with tons of spice. His short story Why I Want to be a Woman was published by Writer Works in the spring as part of a short story collection.
Elizabeth Benton Appell, "Swimming Toward the Butterscotch Man"
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Elizabeth writes screenplays, plays and novels as well as short stories. Her first play, "Confessions of a Catholic Child" was a finalist in the Writer's Network Fiction Contest in Los Angeles, chosen for staged reading by The Long Beach Playhouse, finished fifth in a field of 9,000 in the 1998 Writer's Digest Playwriting Competition, and optioned by a Canadian producer to create a one-hour film based on the play. Her second play, "Moon Walkers" finished second out of a field of 300 in the Do Gooder Productions New Playwright Award Competition, was recognized as a semi-finalist in Writer's Network 1998 competition, was part of New Theatre Works Festival 99 in Santa Rosa, became a semi-finalist in the Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition and placed in the top ten plays out of a field of 19,000 in the October 2000 Writer's Digest Writing Competition. Her "Journal of a Common Man," won Dominican University's Festival of Short Plays. Elizabeth's novel, Lessons From the Gypsy Camp was published by Scribes Valley Publishing in March 2004.
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