Featuring national and local contributors—including Noah Falck, Jane Wong, BJ Soloy, Paige Nicole Gordon, Jason Teal, and Robert Long Foreman—this issue ventures boldly into themes of grief, rage, intimacy, identity, and absurd survival. From goons in baby oil to worm exorcisms via turpentine, from Britney Spears elegies to elegies for ourselves, the writing here is unafraid to be messy, magical, political, funny, and devastating—all at once.