lesser_celery | Announcing Not One of Us #75

“Music, music, music! That’s the theme of our stories this time. We have a piece of classical music, once hidden behind a wall, that becomes an earworm for a violinist; three performers in the late 1970s getting plastic surgery to become better impersonators as their manager mourns the loss of his folksinger-girlfriend; a piano moving on from its longtime loving relationship; and a bizarro racetrack wedding, featuring an Elvis impersonator and someone even more special. Our poets speak of aging and loss of control, wake-up calls, steampunk, and a sister beyond the sea.”

Contents:

Ohrwurm, by Steve Toase
Senescence – When Cells Decide to Become Something Else (poem), by Alicia Hilton
Dear Aunt Clara (poem), by Gwynne Garfinkle
Beverly’s Sonata, by Jennifer Hudak
Wake-up Call (poem), by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Steam Punk Steady (poem), by Gretchen Tessmer
Plastic Elvis, by Leah Mueller
The Afterlife of Stars, by Anne Baldo
I Have a Sister Beyond the Sea (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
Art: Flo and John Stanton (cover); John Stanton

We’ll be mailing the contributors’ and subscribers’ copies over the next week.

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