Edition No. 15 / Fall 2024
We are pleased with this fall edition for its diversity of material and for the variety of creative humans who are part of it all coming together. A special thank you to our guest reader for this edition, Molly Alexander. Your thorough reading and insight was greatly appreciated. So, readers everywhere, all the best to you this autumn, as we fall back and lean into colors of change.
~Mary, Laura, & Leslie
Cover art: “Wedding Dog” by Daniel de Culla
Featuring work by: C.W. Bigelow, Bill Diamond, Bill McGee, Carlene Gadapee, CS Crowe, Leah Erickson, J Kramer Hare, Jason Kerzinski, J. B. Hogan, Judy Terry, Theresa Konwinski, Mary Bone, Maureen Moroney, Paul Ilechko, Thomas Piekarski, and Ramzi Albert Rihani.
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Featured note: One of our author’s whose work has been published in a Backchannels edition has a new book out: The Vigil by Peter J. Dellolio. The book is being sold on the publisher’s website [Type 18 Books], plus Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Abebooks, SAXO, TikTok, Waterstones, Thriftbooks, eBay, and other venues.
The Vigil is about a man (Ralph Unda) who is the lighthouse keeper on Little Brewster Island in Massachusetts. His young daughter (Georgia) suffers from schizophrenia that takes over her mind after she dreams of a seagull flying into the lighthouse during an overnight storm. By coincidence, she finds a dead seagull on the rocks the next morning.
Her delusional beliefs convince her that the dream caused the seagull’s death. Until her death by suicide at the age of twenty-three, her father tries desperately to find a cure for her schizophrenia. Losing touch with reality, he keeps a “vigil” over the sea, hoping to somehow rescue her.