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Dragged and washed with eager hands

When I returned from my appointment this morning, the mail had brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #68, containing my poem "Fascination." It was directly inspired by the discovery of the so-called sorceress' toolkit at Pompeii in 2019; the title comes from the Latin for charm, enchant, bewitch. It's a ghost poem, like most of my poems of the ancient world. The issue's conjoined theme of birth and death is taken up even more directly by stories and poems by Isa Arsén, Alexandra Seidel, Andrin Albrecht, Sarah McGill, and more. Submit, support, keep making strange: the traditional exhortations, but this 'zine is worth them. It is still small, saddle-stapled, black-and-white, with the occasional interior illustration and more often eerily photographic covers. This is the twentieth September. I am so glad to be published in its pages still.