Editor’s Page
for Yellow
Mama Issue #108– Feb. 15, 2025
Hi, all!
Once again, it’s our favorite
time of year. Celebrating those we love or used to love (meaning hate!).
Getting candy, and roses (watch those thorns!), or something more intimate. Enjoying
an overpriced dinner at some swanky joint.
Or maybe sitting home drunk,
alone, or with cats. Plotting . . .
Either way, Yellow Mama’s
got your back. This V-Day issue’s got something for everyone, including a flash
fiction extravaganza!
If this holiday’s got you
“Spellbound,” Adrian Fahy gives you witchcraft and a great twist! For Chekhov
fans, Bruce Costello’s “Around Her” boasts a visit from the good doc himself. In
James H. Lewis’s tale, “The Night Caller” looks out for his widow. And in
Pamela Ebel’s “Liars and Legends,” a mythological “heroine” avenges a wronged
wife.
Other gripping stories include Shari
Held’s “Just Like Old Times,” in which a “retired” hit man reconsiders one last
hit. Set in Vietnam (not during wartime), John Helden’s “Broken Hallelujah” is
seedy and beautiful. Set in Vietnam (during wartime), Kenneth James
Crist’s “Monkey Brains” will haunt you in your dreams.
Did I mention the flash fiction
extravaganza? How Ben Newell’s “Diver Down” features a worse predator than any
shark? How Zvi A. Sesling’s “Pick Up” takes a wrong turn at the dumpster? How the
wife in Ed Teja’s story regrets “Falling for It”? How a woman in love in
Bernice Holtzman’s “Telephone Call” receives a different kind of coitus
interruptus? Six other flash stories pack just as strong a punch.
Our poetry lineup opens with Daniel
G. Snethen’s gut-wrenching “Night of the Lunar Eclipse,” proving that the
purest love is between dog and man. Also check out awesome poems by Rob Plath, John
Tustin, Richard LeDue, Amirah Al Wassif, and others.
Full-length and flash fiction
stories (and some poems) are individually illustrated by our gifted artists: Bernice
Holtzman, Jack Garrett, John Sowder, Kevin Duncan, Hillary Lyon, J. Elliott, Sean
O’Keefe, Sophia Wiseman-Rose, Luis Cuauhtémoc
Berriozábal,
Steve Cartwright, Michael D. Davis, Kelly Moyer, Darren Blanch, Joseph
Richkus, Cynthia Fawcett, Henry Stanton, April Lafleur, W. Jack Savage, and our
newest artists: Dawn Snethen and Daniel G. Snethen.
And check out Rob Plath’s moving V-Day cover, a tribute to
his beloved cat, Daisy.
If you want to submit
full-length fiction, flash fiction, or poetry, check out our guidelines page.
Also, please sign our
guestbook! If you have comments
about Yellow Mama or any stories or poems we publish, you may
leave comments there.
And check out our Archives I
and II to catch recent stories or poems by your favorite writers you might’ve
missed.
And thanks for reading!
