The Linnet's Wings

Prose, Poetry and More INTRODUCTION The Celtic Twilight iii The Hosting of the Sidhe iv x Editor's Note xi The Linnet's Wings Information Page xii EDITORIALS A Gentle Heart, Aquila Ismail 9 Maia Cavelli 32 Nonnie Augustine 46 SECTION ONE Nipigon Bay by Frank J. Hutton 2 FLASH FICTION [Major Works of Fiction] Patricia Friedrich3 Beauty and the Beast Cezarija Abartis 5 Hiding by Susan Tepper 7 SECTION TWO Chasing the Storm by Gina Kelly10 MICRO FICTION The Sunday Special by Stan Long 20 The Cellist’s First Date by Marja Hagborg 22 Nesting Dolls by Carly Berg 24 “Amy in the Dark” by Carmen Tudor26 SECTION THREE The First Breath by Frank J. Hutton 28 ESSAY AND SPANISH TRANSLATION Buenos A Literary City Diana Ferraro 29 POETRY TRANSLATIONS , Diana Ferraro 33 A Buenos Aires por Leopoldo Lugones Mi Buenos Aires querido Tango 1934 Mú Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera Has vuelto Evaristo Carriego Setenta Balcones y Ninguna Flor Baldomera Fernández Moreno After Such Pleasures por Julio Cortázar Letanías de la tierra muerta (Extracto) Alfonsina Storni Marie Fitzpatrick 36 CLASSIC El Cuente Pollo -- The Chicken's Story A Selection from the Selected Mexican and Spanish Recipes by Bertha Haffner-Ginger SECTION FOUR Thiais Village by Gabriel Mtx. Aquirre 44 POETRY John Saunders The Morning I met Seamus Heaney at Tullamore Train Station 47 The Game 48 Howie Good personal history 49 an armed man lurks in ambush 50 Joan Colby Arbitrations 51 Sheila Black Sunflower 52 Short Shrift 54 Changming Yuan My Crow 55 Paul Hostovsky Romantic 56 Aubade 57 Steven Jacobson Ocean's Alive 58 Larry Thomas The Goatherd’s Fingers 59 Colm Scully A Poem Remembered 60 SECTION FIVE The Stuff of Dreams by C. Mannheim 61 SHORT STORIES Fly South by Ricky Ginsburg 64 Good Friday – Mary Magdalen by Beate Sigriddaughter 69 The First Wife by Yvette Flis 95 ILLUSTRATIONS Beatrix Potter Inside Front End The Tailor of Gloucester Foreword "Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my TWIST?" The Tailor of Gloucester "Why don't those youngsters come back with the dessert?" The Tale Of Johnny Town-mouse 17 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles 19 Ginger and Pickles were the people who kept the shop. Ginger was a yellow tom-cat, and Pickles was a terrier. Front End, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles 21 Johnny Townmouse 23 MLF After Beatrix 91