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Kristi Conley-Brockie and Lisa Eldridge

Kristi Conley-Brockie The Pie That Went to my Thigh Pencil and PhotoShop Response Why Did I Eat That Pie? by Lisa Eldridge Inspiration piece Why did I eat that pie? It went directly …

Sandy Coleman and Ray Sharp

Sandy Coleman Response piece Beyond the Horizon Mixed media on canvas Ray Sharp Inspiration piece BIRDS There must be birds beyond the horizon. We feel their wings beating in the wind, hear their murmured conversations roll …

Val Bonney and Maggie Caldwell

Val Bonney Response Bellefontaine Soup Maggie Caldwell Inspiration Piece Sunday Supper The first time I ever ate raccoon was at Bellefontaine Cemetery over on the north side of town. (You know, that’s where your grandparents …

Diane Mayr and Channie Greenberg

Shall We Dance? by Diane Mayr Response piece Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles by Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles When lads do play a piccolo, girls tweet upon a flute, Bray a brassy …

Heidi Mordhorst and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

“Window Pains” by Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Inspiration Piece Photo taken with Nikon Coolpix 4300 Digitally enhanced with Gimp Window Pains by Heidi Mordhorst Response To ash the hands who built …

Jack Hernandez and Jewel Beth Davis

Response piece by Jack Hernandez (mixed media ACEO) Inspirational Piece by Jewel Beth Davis … The Room The air hangs in the room, stagnant. Antiseptically offensive. Heavy machinery. Long …

Michael Baca and Elizabeth Stelling

Response piece by Michael Baca Inspiration piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Tonight, he just wasn’t feeling it taking those slow walks around the block risk of unwelcome injury in …

Elizabeth Stelling and Michael Baca

Inspiration piece by Michael Baca Response piece by Elizabeth Akin Stelling Hot Damn the heat! August was like that in Texas. Cryer Creek is a hell hole in summer the sheriff …

Anthony Valade and Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

Photo by: Linda M. Rhinehart Neas Hives. By Anthony Valade Here they are all sitting in a line, fit for prince of death and decay. Left to survive, …

Gabriel Shanks and Russ McIntosh

” “Phantasmagoric” by Russ McIntosh (Inspiration Piece) ———– “The Way It Began (A Sacred Cantata For Science Nerds)” by Gabriel Shanks (Response Piece) with additional text reconsituted from the Upanishads, the …

Cinthia Lozano and Sukia

Inspiration Piece by Sukia Response Piece by Cinthia Lozano Fantasy by Cinthia Lozano Looking into a world unknown Unknown and undiscovered Undiscovered, yet it is calling me in whispers Whispers floating into …

Amaryllis Holloway-Turman
and Kathleen Jordan

Piercing Eye By Amaryllis Holloway-Turman Response Piece Direct Gaze By Kathleen Jordan Inspiration piece Face to face, eye to eye, direct gaze Not into a monitor, or a cell phone but in …

Cinthia Lozano and Amanda Miska

Inspiration Piece by Amanda Miska Response Piece by Cinthia Lozano New Heaven by Amanda Miska Bare branches hang in silhouette against a violent violet-orange sky. They speed toward the …

Jane Hulstrunk and Quentin Paquette

JANE HULSTRUNK Response QUENTIN PAQUETTE Inspiration I don’t know if I ever told you I was once the collegiate intramural champion in the mile and a half. …

Jewel Beth Davis
and Jack Hernandez

Jack Hernandez Inspiration Piece The Bullfrog’s Vision By Jewel Beth Davis Response “Where are we?” Sarah said. “Just keep walking,” Sadie told her. The two sisters moved along the path blanketed in …

Amanda C. Brainerd and Annmarie Lockhart

Amanda C. Brainerd Response piece Inspiration Piece All Sorts of Gambles By Annmarie Lockhart Weather, winning, and writing are the basic components of a particular kind of trifecta won in all …

Su Baccino and Bob Moore

Paul Hunter and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald. Inspiration Piece. Paul Hunter. Response Piece. When Carinne left her hotel that first day in Paris, she pulled her black coat tight around her shoulders, although …

Caroline Evey and Jim Carlisle

Caroline Evey untitled Response Jim Carlisle Inspiration Piece Thoughts invoke simple thoughts and wishes, but it’s something more that lies beneath the surface, as the stars come to play I wonder …

Caroline Evey and Hildie Block

Caroline Evey what we once were Response Hildie Block Embers Inspiration Piece I looked back at the car wreck, behind me near the road. The wagon was literally wrapped around a tree, …

Denise Marois and Michele Hoben

Ghost Prophet by Denise Marois Response Lilly thinks the old woman has nodded off. She’s been sitting still for almost an hour, only the slightest rise and fall …

Amy Moffitt and Jenny Mathews

Jenny Mathews Untitled – pen and ink Inspiration piece Everything matters Amy Moffitt Response piece I live in a house that my hands didn’t build and I walk down sidewalks that I …

Jenny Mathews and Amy Moffitt

Jenny Mathews Intuit 5″x&7″ pencil, ink & watercolor on paper Response Amy Moffitt intuit Inspiration I came to you because I knew you, because before we met, we met. I don’t have to …

Jim Carlisle and Caroline A. Evey

It forms in the limelight and shadows of the american dream, we all hear the call of fame no matter how big or small the …

Quentin Paquette and Jane Hulstrunk

Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration piece Winter — Quentin Paquette Response I’ve been by here before, but didn’t recognize being here and went by. Then there was so much else to …