The Opiate

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Summer bummer has taken on a new meaning in 2024. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Opiate Vol. 38 </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>shines searing sunscreen-requiring light on some of that ick factor with fiction nonfiction and poetry from Jason Escareno Danila Botha John Whalen-Bridge Kevin Brown Joseph Couchet William K. Burke Joel Savishinsky Frankie Laufer Stephen Barile Rich McFarlin Heidi Joffe Stephanie Watkins Dale Champlin Dina Fiasconaro Sophie Roy Susan Richardson Velibor Baco Frank Freeman Ron Kolm and Ella Middleton.</span></p>