Ascent Aspirations Magazine Contributors Since 1997

Author Links to Their Archived Work

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Mary T. Sala
Photo
Poetry
Evolution  Full Circle  Yesterday's Thoughts  Breathing in the Background

April Salzano
photo
Poetry
Text Message  The Promise  For A Moment

George Samson
Poetry
Luncheon Duets or Soliloquies   Waiter

Jagjit Sandhu

Janos Sandor
Essays
Confessions of a Hypergraphic

Steve Sangirardi
Essays
A Collapse

Lana Santorelli
Poetry
Daughter  My Imprint on the World

Terry Sanville
Essays
Sins of Omission

Peggy Sapphire
Short Fiction
Red Wine Conversation

Farrah Sarafa
Poetry
Silverware  Cartooning the Rebel-Artist

Gerard Sarnat
Photo
Poetry
Mendicino May Weekends  Busy Being Born and Dying

Lauren Sassella
Essays
Misanthrophy

Michael Sauve
photo
Short Fiction
Al Dippy’s Cover Letter

Don Schaeffer
Photo
Poetry
The Prairie  Anna  Original Felony  Short Walks  World War Two Gene: Mother's Day Poem  Parallel Lines  Maude and Her Friends  The Human Sea  Breast and Telephone  Charlotte  What Do I Do With Sadness  The Woman I Wish I Could Have Photographed  When Something's wrong With the Furnace  The History of Poetry: Sarah the Waitress' Poem  Bus Ride Home at -30  Homecoming of Cinderella  In front of the Love Dealer  A Glimpse  Vaudeville  Visit by Egyptian Muscians  For Charity  Making It harder and Easier  Gigi  The Idea of a Stranger  On Seeing "Truman Capote"  Post Apocalypse in Polo Park  The Zig-zag Dance  Animated Eye  Wounded Libido when Travelling Light  Human Condition  What I Want to Say to the Young Man about The Missing Cat  A Full Passage  Flowers  Siona's Orangepeel Sun  Modern Physics  Comatose  Jung's Intruder  I am  Dreaming Memories  What is Memory For?  Confession of a Former Poetry Salesman  The Victory of a Mature Man  Evolution  Absolute Limen  Portents  The Pet  My Poetry Style  Filler  Quantum Theory  Entertainment   The Insect Baby   Stripped of Being Missed  From Insane Songs  Aves  Daily Afternoon  Proper Preparation  Days  The Most Authentic Life  The Place of Delusion in a World of Fact
Visual Art
Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 1  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 2  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 3  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 4  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 5  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 6  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 7  Don Schaeffer Art Exhibit 8
  Short Fiction
The Complete Introvert  Two Dreams  Between

Irmgard Schafer
Essays
Acceptance

Lea Schizas
Short Fiction
Happened Upon

Brendyn Schneider
Photo
Short Fiction
Conversations with Lou

Chantel Schott
Visual Art
Chantel Schott Exhibit

Moss Scheurkogel
photo
Short Fiction
The Intruders

Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Photo
Short Fiction
How I Became an Expat  Buses in Bolivia
Essays
Four Short Essays

Brett Schwartz
Poetry
Picking A Favorite

David Schwartz
Poetry
eecomiom leaning to drive  William Blake Learns to Drive

Peter Schwartz
Visual Art Exhibit
Peter Schwartz #1  Peter Schwartz #2  Peter Schwartz #3
Poetry
What was There  Dogfood

Jennifer Jayne Scobie
Photo
Poetry
a coarseness beyond which to awaken  scent of freedomnbsp; marveling the mist

Alan Scott
Essays
Keep on Truckin'
Poetry
21st Century Coffeehouse

L.B. Sedlacek
Short Fiction
Gin of Eve
Poetry
The Perfect Circle  Ghosts Within  Undelivered Mail

Anne Séité
photo
Poetry
Moving On  Evening

Dan Seiters
photo
Short Fiction
The Gala Ball

Mariah Sells
Poetry
A Caged Human Looking Outward at the Animals

Anna Serio
Poetry
Autumn Rasa

David Sermersheim
Poetry
Concept Born

José Manuel Sevilla
Poetry
At the Beginning  Guinot. Sunday Afternoon

Andrew Shaffer
Photo
Short Fiction
Samantha75

Harry Shannon
Short Fiction
Bless You

Mikaela Shannon
photo
Poetry
A Future Forecast

Raj Sharma
Poetry
Childhood  Spring in the Coast Mountains

Alexander Shaumyan
Poetry
On Cultural Memetics

Ayelet Shaviv
photo
Poetry
Our Hebrew "Musa"

Tomi Shaw
Short Fiction
Cubrame

Patrick Shea
Poetry
The Amount of Effort it Takes To Use a Stirrer Must Be Astounding

Tom Sheehan
Photo
Short Fiction
The River Thief
Essays
The Catch of the Day

Sarah Sheikh
Short Fiction
Memoirs of a Trained Monkey

Kory M. Shrum
Poetry
Ardor

Christopher Shultz
photo
Short Fiction
Pandemic

Andy Sibbald
Photo
Short Fiction
My Kasha Friend and the Lessons Learned  The Elderly Inuit Woman and the Hockey Stick  Butterflies and Rose

Gabrielle Sierra
Photo
Short Fiction
The Tasting Game

Frank T. Sikora
Short Fiction
Charlie and Marcie Along the 47th Parallel  Iron and Nickle  Flying Colors  Dutiful Soldier  Square One  The Year Before the Comet
Visual Art
This Week's Message From Home

Stuart Jay Silverman
photo
Short Fiction
Mrs. Fogel's Cookies

Melanie Simms
Poetry
Gravity  When You Have Loved a Man  Rain

Caroline N. Simpson
photo
Poetry
The Fortune Cookie

Fiona Sinclair
photo
Poetry
Fear of Letter Boxes  Lucky Streak  Ladies Who Lunch  Nest Egg  Terms of Endearment

Ron Singer
photo
Poetry
Paleo-Visitor   Double Entry Deletion

L.S. Skyhawk

Phillip Slattery
Short Fiction
Sudan  The Last Sane Man  Shape Shifter

Makini Raziya Slaughter
Poetry
My Enigma

Hannah Sloane
photo
Short Fiction
The 1 Train

Carol Smallwood
photo
Reviews
Three Reviews of Carol Smallwood's Books  Strange Life by Eleanor Lerman
Short Fiction
After the Funeral  A Funeral Luncheon  Spirit of Place
Interviews
Conversation with Aline Soules

Zae Smekens
Short Fiction
the russian cow killer combing his mother's hair

AJ Smith
Poetry
If You Were Here

Eric Dreyer Smith
Short Fiction
What They Knew

Kate Smith
Short Fiction
The Dominant Rose

Lorena Smith
Short Fiction
Dutch Boy

Meg Smith
Poetry
Escuchando/Listening  Pluto  Recklessness

Meghan Smith
Photo
Poetry
i wanted to write sincerely about prostitution   To Define This

Rachel Smith
Photo
Short Fiction
The Second Time: A Girl’s Perception

Rick Smith
Poetry
Distance  Last View of Mei Leng

Nathan B. Smith
Poetry
warm wet corduroy shame turning cool

Robin A. Smith
Short Fiction
Into the Chesapeake

Daryl Sneath
Photo
Essays
Autumn Rusts

Lindsay R. Snider
Poetry
Warped and Twisted

Susan Snowden
Photo
Short Fiction
God's Brats

Garrett Socol
Photo
Short Fiction
A Splash of Color

Paul Sohar
Reviews
With Time To Remember

Gerald Solomon
photo
Poetry
All the Time

Henry Sosnowski
Poetry
God and the Ducks  It's a Wise Man Who Knows His Limitations  Our Lady of Mustang

George Sparling
Short Fiction
Blue Idiots  Leap Year  Them  The Traveler  American Standard  The beauty Expert  Listen Arcata  The Thrower  Table Talkr
Poetry
Jazz Highway

Ksenija Spasic
Photo
Poetry
Lilac  Treeman

Jamison Spencer
Short Fiction
“A Sad World”

Spiel
Photo
Short Fiction
Slim Light  Couch Thing  Split Ends   Slow Good Gas  Blue Boy  Salt  The Blood Drop
Reviews
Louis Bourgeois' chapbook, Alice
Poetry
imagine  oompah pah  making neighbors
Visual Art
The Artist Spiel 1

Michael Spring
Photo
Poetry
Cobra Lily  The Sound  The Boy's Hands  The Day You Died  Rattlesnake Woman  Song of the Healer  thunderstorm  the fighter's garage  bridge menu

Al Staffetti
Short Fiction
A House in Naples  Serenity

Jonathan Stamp
Essays
Generation Why

Laura Stamps
Poetry
The Jeweled Chant

Brittney Stanford
photo
Poetry
Incomplete

Gaia Standing
Photo
Essays
Written
Poetry
"Stay Love."  Falling in Love

Jack Steinberg
Poetry
Be Happy

Shelby Stephenson
photo
Poetry
"I have folded my father's hands across his breast"  “Domestic game! Swamp-rabbits, cottontails, possum”   "Across the road in the family graveyard the clay appears turned over and over in piles”  The Feed-Room

Richard Stevenson
Poetry
In the Elms' Shadows  Haiku

Emerson Stewart
photo
Short Fiction
Baby

Jack Stewart
Photo
Poetry
Coat of Arms: Monet's Pallette

Josh Stewart
Photo
Poetry
Cold War  Escape Route  Featureless  Easy Street

Marydale Stewart
Poetry
THe Braid

Don Stockard
Photo
Short Fiction
Creation  The Outcast  The Trail of Muse  Dark Race  Time Merge  Brightest in the Class  The Professor's Choice

Christine Stoddard
Photo
Poetry
FLY-OVER LOVE IN A FLY-OVER STATE

Alacrity Stone
Poetry
The Vanish of Time  Between the Lion's Toes Grow Girls and Flowers  The New Car Smell - Type A  Ask Me Again If I Love Her  A Letter As Poetry  Mercury Switches and The Mating of Clocks

Douglas Storey

Brett Stout
Poetry
Uncouth Answers from the Bottom of the Glass

Sheri L. Strobaugh
Photo
Essays
Rejections, Quite Liter(ar)ally
Short Fiction
The View From My Room

Lynn Strongin
Photo
Short Fiction
The Ghost of God  Plugging Your Ears to Fireworks
Poetry
With Short Sharp Strokes  The Poem begins swith the throat  Lamp Hospital  Does the bird have built-in template of song?  Coda  Barker Lifts His head As Dogs Will  Even in the Darkest Days of February

Garland Strother
Photo
Poetry
Santa Lucia Park  The Skater

Jane Stuart
Poetry
Turning Arabesques  Golden Sunbeam  A Sunny Vineyard at the Wall  Haiku and Cinquain  An Early Spring Thaw  One the Sidewalk

Ray Succre
Photo
Short Fiction
Hot-Sauce on Roses
Poetry
Gigs  Cenovoracious  The Gracile Rain of a Watershot Gray

George Such
Poetry
Wading In  Snake River Driftwood

Jim Sullivan

Mary Ann Sullivan
Photo
Poetry
Gathering South Asia Through Our Eyes  At Work the Dau After

Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan
Photo
Poetry
Siren Song  Caramel

Victoria L. Sullivan
Short Fiction
Thin Walls

Dee Sunshine
Photo
Visual Art Exhibit
Dee Rimbaud #1  Dee Rimbaud #2  Dee Rimbaud #3  Dee Rimbaud #4
Poetry
Jackie Dearie  Harbour of Still Waters

Andrea Bythe Svendsen
Poetry
Buddha Knows  The First Kiss

David Swartz
Visual Art
Birds on Ladders

Jonathan M. Sweet
Short Fiction
The Second Mrs. Pecker

John Sweet
Poetry
december 17th, the days like pools of tar  Glacial  Never Stop  Collage, After Lee Krasner  Carver

Crystal Lane Swift
photo
Poetry
Darque Doll

Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Poetry
Your Door  Aubade  Edge of the Tracks

Maggie Switzer
Photo
Short Fiction
How a Wall Stands

Suzanne Sykora
Photo
Short Fiction
His Blue Tear
Poetry
Erosion  If Vesuvius Knew

Elizabeth Symons
photo
Short Fiction
Aunt Flo

Robert Syta
Visual Art Exhibit
Robert Syta #1

Anca Szilagyi
Photo
Short Fiction
Cumulus



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