This week of Valentine’s Day, our contributors examine love in multiple forms:
Janice Westerling’s essay, “Superior Dairy,” captures the love within a family during a father-daughter outing.
Peter Obourn’s short story, “Maureen and Sylvia,” perfectly depicts the first hints of young love, in a tale set in the 1950s.
Natsumi Tsujimoto’s piece on Trophy Wife’s album, “Sing What Scares You,” is part review, part love letter.
In the short story by James Curtiss, “She Walked in Beauty (Or at Least I’m Pretty Sure),” the protagonist recalls a lost love with heart-breakingly fearless candor.
Stefanie Pickett Buckner’s poem, “Mistaking the Moon,” beautifully encapsulates the small moments of a marriage that make for lasting love.
About Alyce Wilson
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.
