Cheryl Wilder, Author at Waterwheel Review

December 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it?

December 2021 | Issue #13

With “Traveling through the Vanishing Point” by Christina Hutchins

“Another Travelin’ Song” by Bright Eyes.

With “Breathing Exercises” by Carlene Gadapee

“Tibetan Gong and Bowl Sounds” by 3ARTES.

“Just Breathe” by Pearl Jam.

With “The Delicate Periphery of Your Crime” by Deanna Benjamin

“Mama Tried” by Reina del Cid.

Acknowledgments

1961 Sears ad via Daily Mail.

Road through desert background image by mark-weaver at Pixabay.

Leaf skeleton background image by Illuvis at Pixabay.

Eight of Swords, 1909 Rider-Waite tarot deck, via Wikipedia.

Distorted fingerprint background image by stux at Pixabay. (Photoshopped by Cheryl Wilder.)

November 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

November 2021

From the Editors

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

The leaves have mostly dropped. We’re rummaging for scarves and gloves while a shade or two of melancholy settles into the day’s gaps. The perfect framing, we think, for three sad-sweet pieces about connecting, somehow, through a disconnect. In Peggy Hammond’s piece, the mystery caller’s number is blocked… but the need and hope come through. Madeleine Mysko’s revelation of shared vision between a mother and her grown daughter both startles and soothes. And Kate Senecal’s loyal guard dog stands in for who’s missing and what’s not being said. Easy or fraught, brief or enduring, simple or complicated—it’s a meditation on human connection, this issue. We’re particularly happy to share it now, before the holiday season, in these few weeks of autumn quiet.

—Claire, Suzanne, Cheryl

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