THE MAGIC OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
(vol. 36, no. 2, summer 2024)

Cover photograph

The Magic of Light and Shadow in Her Garden
by Kathleen Gunton

Contents
[stories, short-shorts, poems, photographs)

Photograph, Victoria Ilemobayo,	x

Evanescence, SPIN, 1

Growing, Virginia McGee Butler, 4

First Night in the Wilderness, Anne Dalziel Patton, 5

Chiaroscuro, Erika Hoffman, 13

Saratoga Springs, Death Valley National Park,
R. David Bowlus, 17

Yellow Peeper, Stuart J. Silverman, 18

Shadows, Sean E. Britten, 19

Sticky and I, Nikky Mohandas, 21

Beautiful Room, Robert Scott Mason, 26

Lighthouse in the Desert, Daniel Crow. 27

Everyone Says the Moon, Gary Sterling, 32

In My Mother’s Shadow, Madonna Dries Christensen, 33

On an Outer Banks Dune, Ted Burrowes, 39

Great Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge, Tom Gengler, 40

Illlumination, Susan Duke, 41

Stardate 2017, Beverly Boyd, 55

A Conversation at the End of the World, Hûw Steer, 57

Telling Time by the Shadows, Matthew J. Spireng, 69

The Card Players, Ruth Holzer, 70

Magic?, R.G. Halstead, 71

Depth Perception, Linda Berry, 74

Mouse, Yvonne Ventresca, 75

Natural Born Anomaly, Orsolya Karàcsony, 83

Shadow Play, Margo Peterson, 84

Seeing, Stephen Page, 85