Derelict Voices

Michael 

Born in Bremerton, Washington on June 29, 1958. I was raised in Riverside, CA.  Went to three different grade schools, two different junior high schools and two different high schools. Starting writing poetry the summer before my senior year in high school. I started singing in the fifth grade to bring myself out of my shell. I’m a crab.  I was born again on January 24, 1978. Shortly after that I got my first guitar. I knew I wanted to play when I heard someone play this instrument in my teens. My mother tried to get me to play an accordion. I left Riverside the day before my nineteenth birthday and have lived up and down the west coast. I spent one and a half years in college studying German and Spanish.


The Facets of You (coming soon)

Killer Sale (coming soon)

Andy

I have not been single for the past 49 years, and Claudia Penner-Hanson is the woman to blame. I am a retired CSUC university professor, an occasional essayist and poet, and aspiring novelist. I am currently an Adventist Today senior reporter and the editor of two blogs. Hobbies: police procedural novels, fishing, making golf balls disappear into forests, ravines, ponds, and weeds, and making new friends.
aphanson@csuchico.edu

Ben

James B. Mielke (call me 'Ben') born 1959, grew up in Berkeley, Ca. Has worked as a carpenter, a cartographer, and a few other useful things--favorite job was cleaning barns. Graduated 1997 from Sonoma State University with a bachelor's in Geography, pursued, but never caught a Master's at Chico State.

likes: organic food and gardening, honest enterprise and discourse, inspired craziness.

dislikes: phonies, liars, manipulators. Currently working on the long anticipated novel 'Cardomon'.

But enough about me. Just wondering: If I were to choke to death on an all-day sucker, would I be lollygagging?

Daniel

Another day passes, another story dies.  Sometimes it's just as simple as that.  Yet we're all products of the past---yesterdays shorn of many characters and situations and made of reinventions both social and political.  I search the byways for that derelict place.  Wading through the weeds and avoiding the hole in the porch, I step inside and run my hands over the weathered wallpaper.  The decades peel back one after another and a glimmer of light appears out of the corner of my eye.  I turn to see the sun touching the pond past the broken windowpanes and I try to capture that moment.  It's a timeless truth that can touch down anywhere, for the past is only the present in costume.



Emily

Emily was born and raised in New York City. She roamed the Northeast and West Coast, living in Worcester and Northampton MA, Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Davis CA. She retired from teaching in 2006 to live on two and a half acres in Chico, CA and write screenplays. She is married with two grown children.








Liz

Liz Stewart, from the Midwest, retired librarian, digs into local history, armchair traveler, visits museums, pulls blackberries on Comanche Creek.











Scott

Scott Clark has been traveling since his discharge from the military in 2006. He has lived in Chico off and on for two years. He is thirty-five years old.