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September 1, 2023 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #28

Who made it?

September 2023 | Issue #28

With “My Bad” by Deborah Adams

“Brother Can You Spare a Dime” by George Michael.
black and white image of a small person falling, arms and legs behind them in a misty sky as they look toward a tree canopy

“Untitled” by Henry & Co.

Antique old clock with roman numerals in an abstract fractal spiral.
“Untitled” by Mikhail Leonov.

With “The Conqueror” by Michael Waterson

“The Conqueror (El conquistador de Mongolia)” by Victor Young.

With “Please Advise” by Christine Aucoin

Portrait of confused young woman with blurred face. She is moving her head fast, so her face isn't identifiable.

“Untitled” by Sophia Floerchinger.

Graphic illustration of a black staircase with the same blue silhouette of a business person on each step and the person on top is a red silhouette being pushed down by a large pointer finger

“Termination Dismissal Released” by RosZie.

Acknowledgments

Image of Genghis Kahn statue at Smithsonian Associates.

Rendering of Fremont St. in Las Vegas at Rare Historical Photos.

Image of error message by SkillUp.

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May 1, 2023 By Cheryl Wilder

From the Editors | Issue #27

May 2023

From the Editors

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

We say goodbye to our third season with three reflections on loss. Issue 27 moves from grief, to regret, and then into a kind of rebirth. The body in Kelly Vance’s “Open Casket, 2020” is “a coded message too long to decipher in a single lifetime.” There is nothing to decode in the examined betrayal and remorse in “Mostly Sorry,” a eulogy of lost love by Susan Wadds. “But there is light, muted yet glistening” shining through Laurie Easter’s “Transmute,” where in water “floating sand is the mirror of stardust.” The light is all. It shines here, in these pieces.

—Claire, Suzanne, Cheryl 


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May 1, 2023 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #27

Who made it?

May 2023

With “Open Casket, 2020” by Kelly Vance

“First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes.
closeup of dandelion stem with a few attached seeds, and a string of seeds blowing away out of focus
“Untitled” by Saad Chaudhry

With “Mostly Sorry” by Susan Wadds

“Baby Can I Hold You” by Tracy Chapman.
small colorful stones on the bank of rippling water topped with a glimmer of sunlight
“Untitled” by Dey Kheireddine.

With “Transmute” by Laurie Easter

“Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper.

Acknowledgments

Background image of parking lot by Tim Meyer via Unsplash.

Image of apartment door by Rodrigo Santos via Pexels.

Image of Ipomoea alba (Moonflower) budding by Don McCulley.

Background image of shoreline by Nathan Tran via Pexels.

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April 1, 2023 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #26

Who made it?

April 2023 | Issue #26

With “Omnia Vanitas” by Donna Obeid

“Dance on The Moon” by Aurora.
1800s oil painting of fair-skinned woman with long straight brown hair leaning on her elbow, her other hand resting on a human skull, looking dreamy and contemplative into the distance
Omnia Vanitas, 1848, by William Dyce.
Untitled by MariaD.

With “Remembering Adella” by Anna Citrino

abstract field with rough brush strokes for grass, valleys and hillsides in white, gray, and blue
Embracing the Silence by Wanda Loomis.
early version of Picasso's Woman Ironing; woman with dark brown hair, olive skin, bent over using a flat iron; colors are all tinted with hues of blue
La Repasseuse, 1901, by Pablo Picasso.

With “The Shawl” by Elizabeth Bedell

Chopin Etude in E major Op. 10 no. 3 “Tristesse” by Henrik Kilhamn.
curly blond-headed child in red coat and hat bending over a wall covered in vines with a key to unlock a secret door; book cover of The Secret Garden
Cover: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Maria Louise Kirk.
painting of women wearing Kashmiri shawls; colors of the background are earth tones and abstract; women are wearing cream-colored shawls with the same earth tones as the background
Cashmere, 1908, by John Singer Sargent.

Acknowledgments

Field background by BETRuleR via Alpha Coders.

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