Ascent Aspirations Magazine Volume 12, Number 1 February 2008 ISSN 1715-085X Short Fiction: Keisha Grant Rupert Merkin Fereshteh Molavi Rola Phoenicia Richard Rippon Brendyn Schneider Garrett Socol Bob Yamtich Visual Art The Art of Helen Bar-Lev The Art of Patricia Carroll The Art of Cecelia Chapman The Art of Jeff Crouch The Art of Charles Frederickson The Art of Sarah Horsfall The Art of Norman Olson Links David P. Fraser Submissions Archives Authors Bookstore A A Publishing Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Anthology 4 Anthology 5 Author Links Anthology Contributors

Poetry: Jesse Akaike Peter Austin Joe Baloz Beebe Barksdale-Bruner Helen Bar-Lev Gerald Bosacker Anne Brudevold April Bulmer David Chorlton Charles Frederickson Grace Marie Grafton Taylor Graham John Grey Kenneth P.Gurney Leland Jamieson Michael Keshigian Ted Lardner Nicholas Messenger Thamsanqa Ncube Rostislav Persion Shannon Joyce Prince Gerald Rochford Tanya Rucosky Noakes Don Schaeffer Alan Scott Hank Sosnowski Lynn Strongin Mary Anne Sullivan Patrick Sullivan Vernon Waring Eli Hiroshi Woods Linda Woolven Contact Home

Chick by Patricia Carroll Essays "Knowing One's Self: Emerson vs Fromm" by Ernest Dempsey "Life was Wasted on the Dead" by Karina Mahan "Namaste" by Tara Thurber "On Seeing Others" by Christopher M. Zimmerman Reviews Thirst by Patrick Carrington reviewd by David Fraser Rarity From the Hollow by Robert Eggleton reviewed by Adicus Ryan Garton A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini reviewed by Rola Phoenicia