There are a few ways to introduce the January Issue. On the one hand, there’s a broad theme of resilience in the face of loss in these stories, of choices made early in life echoing down through the years, of people striving to build and retain connections.

Or, we could go with the old friends-new friends motif. We welcome Christopher Lettera, Dana Chamblee Carpenter, and Randall Martoccia to our pages for the first time, where they join returning favorites, K. Marvin Bruce and the indomitable Ryan Werner.

Ultimately, we decided simple and obvious is best: We fucking survived the Mayan Apocalypse. Let’s read some good shit.

The January Issue of Jersey Devil Press is at your disposal.