The Opiate

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Welcome to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Opiate Vol. 40. </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> A particularly momentous issue because of both its milestone number </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> seeing the magazine into its ten-year anniversary era. That said we aim to keep pushing the envelope as usual in the years to come (or however long printed materials endure). This edition features a mix of familiar favorite alumni and erstwhile </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Opiate</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> virgins including fiction nonfiction and poetry from Holly Marihugh Max Talley Russ Doherty Lela Cermin Kari Wergeland Renshaw Zeke Greenwald Alex Osman John Grey Djanet Antonia Alexandra Klimenko Alessio Zanelli Stephen Barile Alise Versella Frank Freeman Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios Ken Been Frankie Laufer Dale Champlin and Marissa Glover.</span></p>