In this issue, Angie, an aspiring artist, meets Paul, an older man whose entire life is an unconventional artistic experience in Meghan Louise Wagner’s “Wild Sage.”
Lauren Harkawik imagines the present and future of a life that can be towed on a truck in “House on Wheels.”

And Catherine Pritchard Childress finds a voice that speaks for many women by giving voice to some of the most memorable women from the Bible in four poems beginning with “Wife to Wife.” These poems are excerpted from Childress’s full-length collection Outside the Frame, published this week by EastOver Press.
This issue features stills from “Purple Noon” (French: “Plein soleil;” Italian: “Delitto in pieno sole;” also known as “Full Sun,” “Blazing Sun,” “Lust for Evil,” and “Talented Mr. Ripley”), a 1960 crime thriller film directed by René Clément, loosely based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.