Whether it’s unrequited love, passion or something else, this week’s contributors portray the depth and frustration of longing.
“Taking it in Almost” by David Breeden is a poem about yearning for something just out of reach.
The short story “You Know How Women Are” by William Parent is set in 1969, using gentle humor to ponder dating.
“Meeting Alice Mary” by Robert Watts Lamon, a story set in the 1980s, captures the seemingly insignificant moments that can shape love’s destiny.
The poem “Sunday in Her Garden” by Maura Gage Cavell captures the almost obsessive longing of 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.
