Ginny Tilby Blog: Art Stroll: Featuring YOU

I'm SO grateful to all who submitted art and gave permission to post. I'm excited to show you all off! There are some really great things here. Please enjoy the art-stroll, and if you still have something you'd like to share, I'll be more than happy to stick you in! Just email me - ginnytilby@gmail.com

Thanks Again!

Ginny

THE ART:

Spencer and Ben Allred

"Allred-y Films" on Discombobulate TV:

You're Scaring the Ducks

Adam Munoa:

Cyndi Waldron:

Aimy Wombwell:

Karen Ohlinger:

Jared Salmond:

Tyler Call:

Will Terry:

Sandra Pfeiffer:

Sara Woolley:

Nightmare

By Alisha Geary:

Heartpound. 

Inhale. 

Exhale. 

Rise through darkest slime, 

extract of fear—eager demons 

claw. I slide through the grasp 

of talons—shards of shadows with 

raw red edges. 

Words echo, scream, sing, dig 

at soulstring’s tender  

fleshy heart. 

Evil lurks, breathes in curl of ear 

sits on shoulder, stains footprints 

that try to rise  

and rise  

and shatter like light streaming in through 

morning’s window— 

escape.

Luke Temple Walsh:

Adam Dove:

Alexia:

Janet Ruth Heller:

Getting My Mouth Washed Out

Once my grandmother got very angry

when I argued with her.

I was a five year old

who did not know her place.

So she told me to open my mouth

and then she put a bar of soap inside.

Forty-six years later,

I still remember

that awful taste.

But I didn't stop arguing

with her or anyone else.

I've argued with teachers, parents,

rabbis, politicians, and bosses

if they try to limit my freedom

or curtail other people's rights.

I've lived long enough

to see some reforms.

So here's my advice

to other rebellious kids:

If someone threatens you

with a bar of soap,

keep talking so fast

that no one can ever wedge

a stopper in your mouth.

Copyright Michigan Reading Journal, 2009; rpt. in Janet Ruth Heller, Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011); rpt. in Janet Ruth Heller, Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012).

Chelsea Stebar:

Amanda Hebard:

Frankie Kriegjacado:

Alicia VanNoy Call:

"Eric"

Short story you can read or listen to the audio recording at WileyWriters online:

Mom pulled us out of school the day before the attack. She told us to get our handhelds, favorite holo discs, bedding, clothes, books even. She took us down to The Cave. That’s what we called it back when Dad was building it, when I was little. Down under the house, through tunnels, a vertical ladder and a two-door airlock. We hadn’t been down there since it was finished.

“Maybe we’ll never have to use it,” I remember Dad saying. But he and Mom had looked at each other in a way that said, Maybe. Maybe not.........

read or listen to the rest

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