Not One of Us #86
Published April 2026
Theme: Emptiness
“Welcome to our emptiness issue. We have an artist who paints an empty friend’s absence; an executioner whose family fills the void after he retires; a sister who helps her niece when she adopts a creature washed up on the beach; and a woman literally absorbed by a deadly mystery novel. Our poets speak of crooked paths and sheets clean as guilt, spells to undo hatred, a time-breathing dragon, food to eat at the end of the world, and not growing up to be alive.”
Contents:
- Empty, by R. M. Linning
- Northern Comfort (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
- Spell (poem), by Gwynne Garfinkle
- Jack Hangs Up His Axe, by Kris Schokrowsky
- I’d See Her on Corners (poem), by Fred DeMeo
- All Your Eggs, by Penny Durham
- Happy Hour at the End of the World (poem), by Carsten Cheung
- Corpus, by Devan Barlow
- Strange and Crooked Things (poem), by Jennifer Crow
- Art: John and Flo Stanton