As the steel-wool clouds squeeze gallon after gallon of dishwater-warm water over everything, we are glad to be typing this from our nice dry cave with a mug of ginger beer, a bowl of soft pretzels, and some cheerful strings of fairy lights. With haiku from Randy Brooks and stories from Peter Hoppock, Robert Tyler, and Allen Seward, and amazing cover art from Gimal Udara, issue one hundred twenty-four is full of quiet wonders and the sorts of small surprises that jolt us fully awake for a moment, like literary espresso shots.