Welcome to The Opiate, Vol. 35. The 2023 fall issue acknowledges that every day is spooky season when you're caught in the tangled webs of the apocalypse. To navigate through these scary times, turn to fiction from Mary Ann McGuigan, Terry Sanville, William K. Burke, Alexander Lowell and Yann Rousselot; non-fiction from Liz Green; visual art from Sherri Levine; poetry from Dale Champlin, Dale Cottingham, Mark Belair, Issac Cordova, Kathryn Adisman, Charlie Robert and David Estringel.