Holly Willis uses text and image to wonder how we might reimagine our relationship to the world, not as autonomous beings moving through isolated landscapes but as embodied forces intimately enmeshed with the matter around us. These images capture islands, sunlight, and water from the Penobscot Bay in Maine.
Dave Sims makes art and music in the old mountains of central Pennsylvania. His paintings, comix, stories, and poems appear in dozens of tactile and virtual publications and exhibits. See more at www.tincansims.com.
Michael C. Roberts is a licensed clinical psychologist who has published professional and scientific articles, chapters, and books. Seeking to fulfill his creative side, he values things and scenes that are overlooked or backdrops to everyday life. His photographs have appeared on journal covers and in literary publications. He often uses cheap plastic cameras, such as the Diana, Holga, and La Sardinia for making photographs on film, but also resorts to digital at times. A photographic book on Amazon is Imaging the World with Plastic Cameras: Diana and Holga.
Edie Noesser lives on Balboa Island, California. She is interested in nature, bird watching, and urban scenes, bringing her camera along as much as possible.
Kathy McConnell is an award-winning photographer who teaches cell phone photography and writing at Walla Walla Community College in Walla Walla, Washington. She posts regularly on her blog, Box of Tales. The photos submitted for this edition were edited with a Samsung comic filter. Her philosophy of photography is to look for patterns and sightlines. Comic mode generates images that appear as hand-drawn illustrations.
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Issue 114, published April 2025, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and visual art by Virginia Barrett, Julie Benesh, Alyssa Blankenship, Alex Braslavsky, Vikki C., Tetman Callis, Roger Camp, Zack Carson, John Colburn, Ben Guterson, Tresha Faye Haefner, Moriah Hampton, Sher Harvey, Penny Jackson, Carella Keil, Sam Kerbel, Amy S Lerman, Valentine Mizrahi, Christian David Loeffler, Judith Mikesch McKenzie, Jiyoo Nam, Megan Peralta, Andy Posner, Jim Ross, Beth Sherman, J.R. Solonche, Alex Stolis, Maxwell Tang, James Bradley Wells, Tracey Dean Widelitz, and Stephen Curtis Wilson.
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