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The Wordstock
Ten:
Finalists from the 2007 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition
CONTENTS (click
on the story to read the opening paragraph)
- The Creek, by Joshua Michael Riedel
Little
Herons, by K.Fann
Call
Me Ishmael, by Jacob Aiello
Social
Security, by Pamela Rentz
Ours,
All Of It, by Matthew Korfhage
Dessert,
by Tina M. Ontiveros
Thor,
by Rachel Sims
Reprieve,
by Samantha Hudson
Corinth
Behind the Counter, by Jennifer Springsteen
Minor
Theatre, by Margaret Malone
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About the Authors
Josh Riedel (The Creek)
Joshua Riedel was born in Illinois and raised in Missouri. He
received a BA in English from Reed College, where he was awarded
a Kaspar T. Locher grant for fiction writing. “The Creek”
consists of excerpts from his senior thesis, “Sleep, Indian.”
Riedel currently lives in San Francisco with some friends and
a dog. His email address is joshriedel@gmail.com.
K.Fann (Little Herons)
K.Fann grew up a sixth-generation Tennessee muleskinner. Born
with webbed toes, he eventually migrated to the Pacific Northwest.
He nests in moss these days, leaving shiny things on doorsteps
and doing his best with stolen words. His work has appeared in
The Vanderbilt Review.
Jacob Aiello (Call Me Ishmael)
Jacob Aiello recently graduated with highest honors from Portland
State University, where he managed to pick up a degree in English
Literature while spending all his spare time writing fiction.
Last year, one of his stories, “Scrabble Night,” won
the Editor’s Choice award from Ooligan Press. He is now
hard at work amassing a collection of short fiction about the
transformative power of the written word, which is more exciting
than it sounds. He grew up in a small town in Northern California
and experimented with Texas, but now happily resides in Portland,
where he plans to stay.
Pamela Rentz (Social Security)
Pamela Rentz is an enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe of California
and her favorite place is Orleans on the Klamath River in Humboldt
County, California. For the past 16 years she’s worked as
a paralegal in Indian Affairs. She started writing stories sometime
around the second grade. When she’s not writing she spends
her time cooking, gardening and doing yoga. She lives in Vancouver
with her husband, Bob Hughes. Her personal website is: www.pamrentz.com.
Matthew Korfhage (Ours,
All Of It)
Matthew Korfhage is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon.
He is currently at work on a novel.
Tina M. Ontiveros (Dessert)
Tina M. Ontiveros is a writer, writing tutor, and florist who
lives in The Dalles, Oregon, with her husband, two children,
and two dogs. Her short story “Sticks and Stones” was
a 2006 finalist in the M Review online literary journal’s
annual short fiction contest. She is currently working four jobs
while shopping for a graduate writing program.
Rachel Sims (Thor)
Rachel Sims is 17 years old and has lived in Sisters, Oregon,
for most of her life. She lives with her parents, Jeff and Michele
Sims, and her cats, Opus and Bean. Her sister, K, is a junior
at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. Rachel is a
senior at Sisters High School and is involved in band and the
nordic ski team. In her free time, Rachel enjoys ceramics, cooking,
watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and trail running at a leisurely
pace.
Samantha Hudson (Reprieve)
Samantha Hudson is in the creative writing graduate program at
UC Davis, where she is at work on a collection of short stories.
She was born in California, grew up in Oregon, and is back in
California, stocking up on the sun.
Jennifer Springsteen (Corinth
Behind the Counter)
Jennifer Springsteen worked as an educator for twelve years in
and out of the classroom with teens and adults, writing curriculum,
grant proposals, and editing. Now she works at being a mother,
writing during naps and between unforeseen crises.
Margaret Malone (Minor Theatre)
Margaret Malone’s writing has previously appeared in Swink,
Rhapsoidia, latimes.com, and Too Much Coffee Man. She lives in
Portland, Oregon.
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