"Every wild-apple shrub excites our
expectation thus, somewhat as every
wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to
man!", Henry
David Thoreau (1862)
In the contemplative
"Wild Apples", Thoreau illustrates the essence of people as it
parallels with wild apples.
SHALLA Magazine's
Special Edition of "Wild Apples" by
Henry David Thoreau features artistic, vintage art and photography from
the 1800s and works by Gary Beck, Andrew Hogan, John Kaniecki, etc Edited by Shalla Art
Shalla Art's short
stories have appeared in magazines such as the Mad Hatters Review and her skits
have been performed at the Stella Adler Theatre. Shalla, a former writer and
producer of a health and fitness cable show, is currently writing a new novel.
Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Henry David Thoreau July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an
American author, poet,philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor,
and historian. A
leadingtranscendentalist,[2] Thoreau
is best known for his book Walden, a
reflection upon simple
living in natural surroundings,
and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Gary
Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art
dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published
chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press),
Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs
of a Clerk, Civilized Ways (Winter Goose Publishing). Perceptions, Displays,
Fault Lines and Tremors will be published by Winter Goose Publishing.
Conditioned Response (Nazar Look). His novels include: Extreme Change (Cogwheel
Press) Acts of Defiance (Artema Press). Flawed Connections (Black Rose
Writing). His short story collection, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe
Publications). His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and
Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have
appeared in hundreds of literary magazines. He currently lives in New York
City.
John
Kaniecki has been published by Struggle Magazine, The Blue Collar Review,
Burning Books, Jerry Jazz, IWW Newspaper, Protest Poems, Flute, Black Magnolia,
Left Curve, She Mom, Whisper, Vox Poetica and others.
Dr.
Andrew Hogan published more than five-dozen professional articles on health
services research and health policy. He has published forty-six works of
fiction in the OASIS Journal (1st Prize, Fiction 2014), Hobo Pancakes,
Subtopian Magazine, Twisted Dreams, Thick Jam, Midnight Circus, Grim Corps,
Long Story Short, Defenestration, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Blue
Guitar Magazine, Flash, Stockholm Review of Literature, The Beechwood Review,
Short Break Fiction, Cyclamens and Swords, Children, Churches and Daddies,
Spank the Carp, Pear Drop, Festival Writer (Pushcart Nominee), Lowestoft
Chronicle, Fabula Argentea, Mobius, Thrice, The Lorelei Signal, Fiction on the
Web, Sandscript, and the Copperfield Review.
