Announcing Not One of Us 46

[lesser_celery]

Some things are planted to grow, others buried for good...or ill. We have lilies of the West, lilies of the Nile, honey and bees and missing buds. But here, too, are a beast beneath the basement, an underwater city, and dead hotels, memories of loss and memories sold. And all around are angels and giants (baseball anyone?), cats and ghosts

Comments

[sovay]

We’ll be mailing the contributors’ and subscribers’ copies later this week.

Looks pretty terrific to me.

[lesser_celery]

Merci. You'll get your copy hand-delivered if all goes well.

[cucumberseed]

I would love this ToC even were I not in it.

[lesser_celery]

I'm all the more please that you ARE in it.

[strange_selkie]

OHGOD IS THAT ROBERT THE DOLL??
/allcaps

Well, the cover is certainly seasonally appropriate.

[lesser_celery]

I hadn't thought of that, but it does add a layer of meaning.

Robert the Doll

[ext_836386]

Last March, about six inches of raw sewage backed up into my mother’s basement. While slogging around down there to assess the damage, I found the doll exactly as you see it, as if it had clambered up the pile to escape the (wet) mess. Later the insurance co. hired a crew to box up everything that wasn’t ruined and store it in a truck-sized pod. Unloading the pod three months later, I found the doll in much the same position, sitting on top of the boxes. My mother collects dolls with something approaching a mania; I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Robert has a northern cousin…

[asakiyume]

Excellent!