About This Issue

Passion Contents

Poetry

Ballad of the Skylight Diner — Lou Orfanella
What We Do Not Say — Anthony Botti
Run Down by a Dune Buggy on Fire Island — R. Steve Benson
Sunday Evening — Joseph LoGuidice
Late Night with a Seasoned Poet — Mary Sayler
Finding Giverny Off A Sand Road In Rural FL — Mary Sayler
The Monkey Chronicles — Doug Ramspeck

Fiction

Kissing Peter Tork — Lou Orfanella
The French Teacher — Margaret Karmazin
The Broken Cross (Part 1)  — John T. Hitchner

Essays

Tennis above the Net — John F. Joyce
My Calderon Years (Part 1) — Dean Borok
The Last Taboo — Jon Baldwin
Two Islands: England and Eel Pie Island — John F. Joyce
Sardinian Sunshine: The Most Undiscovered Part of Italy — Linda Oatman High
The Palm Tree Goddess — Tala Bar
Out of Kentucky — Mattie Louise

Humor

The Mobile Classroom — Thomas Sullivan
The Last Ant — K. A. Laity

Cuttings

Cuttings are shorter pieces, thoughts and observations.

A  Small, Green Piece of  Paper  — John F. Joyce
Cicadas — Charles Sanft
Jumping Rope in Fitler Square — Bernie Mojzes

Artwork

Heat — Aditi Laddha
Soular Eclipse — Randy Thurman
Fire Sky — Darla Farner
Remembrance — Mary Ann Reilly
Woman in Hutong — Alexandra Parsons
River Girl — Alisha Gaspard
Long I Stood — Alisha Gaspard

Explore the transition between seasons with “Cut Grass in Snow,” “In Spring’s Bed” and “January Thaw.” Or traverse the worlds between the living and the dead in stories by Margaret Karmazin, Helen Tzagoloff, and Tony Dvorak, and with a poem by Frank De Canio. Traverse the connection between history and the present with essays by Donna Miller, Raghbir Dhillon and Kathryn Atwood. Question time travel with John Frank Weaver. Move past memories with poets Daniel Wilcox, Bill Gillard, Robert Leitz and David James.

As the magazine transitions into a new era, join these contributors for transitions between worlds, between lives, and between ideas.

Wild Transitions Contents

Black Cherry – Carol Hamilton
To Moon or Elsewhere – Ishita Bhaduri
Israeli Morning – Daniel Wilcox
Tonight’s The Night We Begin! – Bill Gillard
A Neighbor’s Death – Frank De Canio
Possibilities – Jeannine Pitas
night flowers – Janet Butler
The Sanity (1967-1997) – Robert Lietz
On The Third Ring – R.S. Carlson
Cut Grass in Snow – Michael Lee Johnson
My Best Friend’s Mental Illness – Terri Brown-Davidson
How to Write a Sonnet – Terri Brown-Davidson
Between your two weakest fingers – Simon Perchik
Sunflowers (Triolet) – Joanna Weston
“Where are you going? Michael. Michael.” – Michael Estabrook
My Brave Mexican Girl – Mather Schneider
My Second Half Century – David James
You See My Arms Open – Richard Alan Bunch

Fiction

Eve – Chris Castle
The Letter – Jennifer Bossert
January Thaw – Stephen Muret
A Chagall Figure in the Night – Helen Tzagoloff
In Spring’s Bed – Jude Coulter-Pultz
My Best Friend Forever – Jim Harrington
Elizabeth – Tony Dvorak
One Blink for Yes – Margaret Karmazin
Small Square of Light – Brady Allen

Humor

The Custard Cow – Kathryn Jacobs
Laundry – David Breitkopf
Root Canal – Margaret Karmazin
Letter from the Patent and Trade Office: You Can’t Patent a Time Traveling De Lorean – John Frank Weaver

Essays

How I Broke Into New York Fashion – Dean Borok
Innocence and Esperance – Michael G. Cornelius
Jane Eyre and Alice – Kathryn Atwood
Courage – Donna Marie Miller
Narrow Escapes – Raghbir Dhillon
Looking Down from a Ski Chair – John Joyce

Sarajevo Film Festival – Radmila Djurica

• “Donkey” (Review)
• “Broken Embraces” (Review)
• “Five Minutes of Heaven” (Review)

Ljubljana Film Festival - Radmila Djurica

• “The Limits of Control” (Review)
• “Go Get Some Rosemary” (Review)

Cuttings

Cuttings are shorter pieces, thoughts and observations.
The theme for Cuttings this issue is “transitions.”

Next issue’s theme will be “heat.”

Each Time – Sara Siegel
Faces in Odd Places – Sue Ellis
Pancakes Cure Cancer – Suzanne Sykora
Outer Lands – 1915 – Meg Pokrass

Artwork

Ageless on Two Wheels – Martin Kimeldorf
Cat Stanley Final Photographs – Cecilia Chapman

Interview

Tim Powers, science fiction/fantasy author – Alyce Wilson

Reviews

Books
Halfing’s Court by Danielle Ackley-McPhail – Alyce Wilson
Genuine Men by Nancy Bruno – Alyce Wilson
Dig Up My Gold by Arthur Birkby – Alyce Wilson
Idol Musings, edited by Sophie N. Childs – Mary Matus
A Tiara for the Twentieth Century by Suzanne Richardson Harvey – Alyce Wilson
Chansons of a Chinaman by Changming Yuan – Alyce Wilson
A Whale’s Tale by Daniel S. Janik – Alyce Wilson