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In a time of religious strife, as global leaders call for worldwide unity, Wild Violet’s contributors challenge and celebrate religion.
E.G. Catalano’s humorous fiction short, “The Truth About the Expulsion,” retells the biblical story of Adam and Eve.
Deborah Ewing’s thoughtful short fiction piece, “Iqbal the Cat,” looks at reincarnation through the eyes of someone who never believed in it.
In Gale Acuff’s poem, “Excruciatingly,” an adolescent boy contemplates heaven and unrequited love.
Gale Acuff’s poem, “Living Water,” follows the same character as he copes with sickness and a crush on his Sunday School teacher.
Ron Riekki’s poem, “Abd al-Malik,” pays tribute to a French Muslim poet at a time when France seeks national healing.
Alyce Wilson is the editor of
Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps
an online journal. Her first chapbook,
Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet,
Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns,
The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook,
Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection,
Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site,
AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather,
Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.
