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23rd INSTALLMENT : 5/13/05

Just A Fall
by Marcia Wilke
(Author of Marie Osmond's New York Times best-selling book Behind the Smile; pieces published in Newsweek, Good Housekeeping.)

How We Met
by Marin Gazzaniga
(Author, Maverick Mind: A Mother's Story of Solving the Mystery of her Unreachable, Unteachable, Silent Son (Putnam); co-editor of The Breast: An Anthology (Global City Press).)

My Father and the Ghost of Bugsy Goldstein
by Michael Bookman
(Author of novel God's Rat and collection of first person verse, Pomes, Short Stories in Verse.)

Obviously Jazz
by Eric Johnson
(Pushcart nominee, published in Red Herring, the Rockford Review, Mid West Outdoors.)

Ten Years Gone
by Stephanie Kuehnert
(Published in Virginia Quarterly Review, Hair Trigger 26, Inkstains, Pigeon, F Magazine.)

My First Vision
by Sarah Schulman
(Award winning author of eight novels and three non-fiction books; Award winning playwright -- Guggenheim Fellow.)

24th INSTALLMENT : 6/3/05

What a Waste of a Beautiful Pair of Breasts
by Coley Sohn
(Wrote and starred in Demo Reel - A Tragedy in 10 Minutes, which premiered at HBO's Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.)

My Grandfather the Pimp
byJeff Hopkins
(Writer/director film festival favorite short Draw the Pirate, and P.1. aired on HBO; Actor Joe Somebody with Tim Allen and Sugar & Spice with Mena Suvari.)

A Less than Blessed Event
by Kathlene McGovern
(Has written and performed stand-up and sketch comedy at Carolines, Stand-Up New York and PSNBC; founding member of A Frayed Knot Theater Works.)

Hanging On
by David Chrisman
(Actor, co-starred in The Three Sisters, with Christopher Walken; Playwright Henry: walking through the body of the train)

Becoming a Flower
by Alicia Anka
(Writer, editor, teacher and copywriter.)

Sparkly Things
by Lan Tran
(Essays appear in anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books) and Waking Up American (Seal Press).)