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Summary: Not One of Us, 2005
Not One of Us is a long running small 'zine published by John Benson. Issues 33 and 34 appeared in 2005. The magazine's slant is fairly slipstreamish, and Benson appears to appreciate what you might call "poetic" prose. Each issue features about a half-dozen stories and a number of poems, and artwork. This year there were 12 short stories, one a short-short, for a total of 47600 words of new fiction.
The best stories this year included two by Sonya Taaffe, "Little Fix of Friction" (#33) and "Drink Down" (#34). I liked the second a bit more: it's about a woman and her relationship with another woman, who claims to have loved the Moon (fairly literally), and the stress this puts on the first woman's relationship with her boyfriend. I also liked Jennifer Rachel Baumer's "Stone, and Brass" (#33), about a woman staying in a mysterious town to escape her abusive husband -- and about what she learns about the town. Other nice work came from Patricia Russo and Terry Black.
