Not One of Us #83
Published July 2025
Theme: Gone
“The people and places in our new issue are all gone, sunken, buried, bottled, or vanished, often forgotten. We have a demon trapped in a storm-tempered bottle, a father trying to reach through time and space to his drowning son, a fairy making people disappear in a wink, a house sunken in the earth but still home. Our poets bring us last words spoken in vain, pennies thrown at an outcast man, forgotten places and husks of time, a name buried under a curse. Our artists add more: a man mysteriously digging behind a stump, a century-old bar scene, and a 1960 party dance…so very gone.”
Contents:
- Distilled Fire, by Malory
- Penultimate (poem), by J. J. Steinfeld
- Frogspawn in My Hand, by Steve Toase
- The Price of Silence (poem), by Patrick G. Roland
- Wink and You’re Gone, by Christian Fiachra Stevens
- The Subsidence, by J. M. Vesper
- Below Surface (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
- Forgotten Places (poem), by Vincent Bae
- Art: John and Flo Stanton