meaning in 2024. The Opiate, Vol. 38 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.