Announcing Not One of Us #64

[lesser_celery]

Not One of Us #64 evolved into two shorter publications, which we are calling #64a and #64b. Initially this was a way to deal with the printing company not being back to full capacity after COVID-19. But then I really got to like the idea. But don't worry: subscribers will get both parts and end up with an issue #64 that has more prose, poetry, and art than with our standard 52-page format.

The theme of Not One of Us #64a is travel. (Ironic, given that I have only once since late March been more than four miles from my house.) Birds flee, while people are kidnapped or abducted, change form or vanish, cross a causeway to a place with faces but no exit, or hang suspended until the end.

Not One of Us #64b is all about the baggage people carry: a young woman seeing the human cost of staying alive, someone left behind as excess baggage, others trying to flee, a woman unloading the baggage of expired relationships, plus suitcases and bus stops.

Contents of Not One of Us #64a

The Dregs, by Mark Seneviratne
Abduction (poem), by Roger Dutcher
Taking Form, by Nicole Tanquary
Shadows Vanish (poem), by Jennifer Crow
The Devil’s Causeway, by Pam Bissonnette
The Body Suspension Artist, by Hudson Wilding
Wolves (poem), by Phoebe Low
Art: John Stanton

Contents of Not One of Us #64b

Liesel, by Cate Gardner
Excess Baggage (poem), by Gerri Leen
Money for Mars, by Jonny Spinasanto
And Through the Desert (poem), by Alexandra Seidel
Faces Like the Backs of Thumbtacks, by B. Lawrence
Baggage (poem), by Holly Day
Be Prepared (poem), by Neal Wilgus
From the Fourth Floor, by Matthew Evans
Νυχαυγής (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
Art: John Stanton



I mailed the contributors’ copies this morning, along with the first wave of subscription copies.

Comments

[sovay]

This looks so good. I love the complementary covers.

[lesser_celery]

Thanks. I had originally thought to do a doppelganger theme, but I've done that before. The fleeing birds and baggage tied the whole thing together.

[sovay]

The fleeing birds and baggage tied the whole thing together.

It's a great pair of images. They already look like a story.

[lesser_celery]

A poem for someone to write?

[asakiyume]

I look forward to it--them!

[lesser_celery]

On its/their way.