“Love may be a hurtin’ thing, but not always in a bad way. Our protagonists love what they love, whether by shaping lives out of deaths, shredding barriers that separate them, or practicing to endure what the lover wants to give.”
- People Love What They Love, by Patricia Russo
- Romance (poem), by Gale Acuff
- Wrapped, by Caitlin Campbell
- Inheritance (poem), by Dolorez Gomez
- Waltzing the Tempest, by Jason S. Ridler
- Forty-Fifth Birthday (poem), by Kent Kruse
- Sefer Yetzirah (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
- Art: John Stanton