In our first "post-pandemic" (even though still ongoing) summer, The Opiate offers a splash of cold water on your presumably de-masked face with fiction and poetry from Cara Hoffman, L. A. Ricketts III, Max DeVoe Talley, Salvatore Difalco, Marco Etheridge, Debrah Miszak, Steve Denehan, Donna Dallas, Zeke Greenwald, Ron Kolm, Hedy Habra, Victor Marrero, Thomas Wells, Matthew Peluso, David Estringel, Cynthia Andrews, Mitchell Solomon and Snata Basu.