In this issue, you’ll find all of our stories have this common thread. We have a ghost trapped in place by a past she doesn’t remember, and a truth hunter who needs to face the past she past she won’t acknowledge. There’s a fighting robot trying to avoid obsolescence and a deity who hopes to scrap the world and start over. A pair of vampires face an embarrassing legacy, while a group of fictional heroines revisit their own well-known endings. There’s a woman who connects to the past through a magical cookbook and a woman who connects to the future through a haunted house. A YouTuber tries to save their lover with an authentic taste of their culture, while a hunter tries to save his village with his family’s passed-down recipes. A musician writes letters in the hopes of improving his place in the world, while a prisoner records messages to document their approaching end. We have a warrior trying to avoid an inevitable future and a husband fighting against a persistent past.