The Programmers Lamment (by sarah)

I want feed back on this poem - I'm not sure how to set it out for a start - I was supposed to be writing in two line stanzers - free verse but I dont really under stand what that means so I gave up with the formal structure and wrote what came into my head - warning it does sort of contain a swear - not my fult blame the programmers.

Would lovew feed back - be harsh

Tap, tap, tapping away, Fingers flying, strange graceful dance

Notice not as light fades, consume all energies, forking demons, spawned zombi child

Dance logic, time

Tap tap tapping away, polish finger tips over letters worn

Hunger burns, Sandwitch forgotten, cat licked, stale,

Animalistic, persuing prey, Python here, Chicken there

tap tap tapping, wrist support frayed, mundane treasures, Ruby, Perl

Water sits, bubble strewn, littering your domain

Intently stare, bugs annialated, or so you prey

tap tap tapping, spinning ball, shift to corner, back again

3 am, time for sleep, red eye raw

cup of coffee, jar of beans

headaching, back stooped, so much to sort, so much to do

tap tap tapping. between the sheets, misty bruised dawn, comes and creeps

Power low, reserves giving out, drowsy talk, lisp, dialected, scheme

thought process hard, more tests more

Leached knowledge, sleep, dream, Brainfuck, But still keen

Of Flowers and Day Moons (by sarah)

I saw a sliver of white moon in the blue blue sky and the flowers varilly glowing in the warm sunlight and so I tried to take a picute of it.

Its hard work but there is a day moon in each of these pictures. Even without spotting that tiny sliver I think the composition of the pictures them selves are buetiful. What do people think?

I want critasism here people.

Dragons, Aliens and Space Ships (by sarah)

I've finially remembered to post this over on Salaric, I had to design a Chinese new year craft activity for the Cubs here it is!

http://www.salaric.co.uk/2007/01/28/chinese-dragon/

I also got around to putting up the post on what the kids made on Space Camp :)

http://www.salaric.co.uk/2007/04/15/aliens-and-space-ships/

e-zine On hold :'( (by sarah)

Today was supposed to see the luanch of The Spaces Inbetween e-zine but unfortunatly we just have not had enough submissions and with the best will in the world there is no way the editor could justify going live with an edition that would have been only mine and Ella's work! That includes all the artwork.

We could have infact had an edition with just 2 contributors but it was felt that it just somehow seemed wrong.

This is a shame as I was hoping to give our friends first bash at this e-zine - oh well time for plan b) to wit - advitising for contributors properlly.

I am still happy to look at peoples work - think cross genre, think marginalised genres, think the Snell-Pym book collection and DVD stack, that should give a clue as to what we are looking for!

I am very sad that this project has had to go on hold like this but the editorial staff would rather do this than produce something substandard!

e-zine (by sarah)

We are going to be launching our e-zine in April - it will come out monthly and we are looking for submissions!

Now I do not want to post our mission statement until we are up and running but if any one is interested then please contact me - deadlines for the first issue is March the 1st! We regret that we can not give people money for material at the moment but we can offer free advertising space and back payments should the 'zine take off!

Hope too hear from peeps!