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Issue #29: Featuring Artwork by Orna Ben-Shoshan |
Meet the Cover Artist: Orna Ben-Shoshan
“As an auto-deduct artist, my work is not attached to any particular location or timeframe, and it’s free from any familiar set of rules. My creation is a medium of transferring knowledge about things that are beyond linear time and think...
A Feminist in Barcelona
I am an independent woman. I earn my own paycheck, meager though it may be. I provide for myself. I make my own choices and decisions. I am the ruler of my own destiny. Maybe this is why my soul so embraces traveling. In all its forms. The simple ac...
Sadako Sasaki
one thousand white cranes all folded against the night they were just paper but their wings sang wind and flight -- carried you into the light
Outing the Secret of the Injured Self
The impact of cultural blockage on women's lives cannot be underestimated. For to the degree that we accept - and abide by - the rules of socially invasive, and false, doctrine about who we are and who we ought to be, we will continue to suffer from...
Panti-Less in New York City
My doctor's instructions for the yeast infection all women dread, were succinct and to the point. But what he suggested would make me re-think propriety and re-vamp my wardrobe. "Are you off the antibiotics you took for dental surgery? Good, t...
Featured Poet: Laura Schultz
About Laura Schultz Laura Schultz is a freelance writer as well as President and Primary Psychotherapist of “Counseling at Your Service” in Los Angeles. She completed her undergraduate work in Psychology at UCLA and then obtained a Master’s de...
The Squishmaster
Well, of course I've been squished before, but never on sticks. I hoped that mammograms didn't apply to the temporarily disabled. There was no elevator up to Memorial Hospital's second floor acclaimed Breast Center. Broken leg or no, the elevator wa...
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Carly Hope Finseth
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The talent over at Pixar Animation Studios have really outdone themselves this time. They are master storytellers - gurus in the art of crafting complex, lovable characters - and then adding sound ef...
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Leisha Sagan
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I am an independent woman. I earn my own paycheck, meager though it may be. I provide for myself. I make my own choices ...
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Sarah Eddenden
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I was watching a movie the other night. It was a good movie, about two sisters and their interactions with each other ...
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Leisha Sagan
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Positive body image has never been my strongest suit. Like so many women, I’ve spent many years punishing myself for be...
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Annette Marie Hyder
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a sexy cover you're one of those quick beach reads all hot and no plot it takes more than that to make me leaf through pages peruse and then read trace words with fi...
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Annette Marie Hyder
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one thousand white cranes all folded against the night they were just paper but their wings sang wind and flight -- carried you into the light
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Agnieszka Niemira
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i come in quietly the house breathes to its own rhythm hello granny dearest i say softly she does not recognize me but i know what to do …i laugh oh agnieszka sh...
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Meet the Cover Artist
Orna Ben-Shoshan: Artist Statement
As an auto-deduct artist, my work is not attached to any particular location or timeframe, and it’s free from any familiar set of rules. My creation is a medium of transferring knowledge about things that are beyond linear time and thinking.
It is said that observing metaphysical art induces lucidity and reduces stress. Many people who view my artwork comment that they can deeply connect to what they see, even though they do not necessarily understand it. In others it simply evokes positive and uplifting feelings as they are influenced by it subconsciously.
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