Welcome to the world of Ascent, Aspirations, the world of the imagination, and inspiration, a safe place to send our artistic souls and to share the objects of our creativity. The Ascent Aspirations home page is an extension of Ascent Aspirations Publishing which is an independent press. The home web site is designed by David Fraser, writer, editor, publisher, educator, consultant, and explorer of an eclectic variety of other stuff. Connected with Ascent Aspirations is Patricia Carroll - visual artist in paint and fiber, educator, consultant and searcher for the most perfect place for her soul. Since 1997 Ascent Aspirations has grown from a small electronic magazine that publishes literary, science fiction, fantasy, horror and dark mainstream short fiction and poetry, essays and visual art into a major presence on the web and is now in the process of becoming a print magazine for some of its issues. In addition Ascent Aspirations Publishing has a