Welcome to the Spring 2021 issue of The Opiate. Vol. 25 is packed with surreal and evocative short stories, heart-rending non-fiction and poetry you won't soon forget. This edition features contributions from Hillary Tiefer, Richard Charles Schaefer, Nathan Leslie, Ishmael O. Ross, Liliana Rehorn, Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi, William Pitsenberger, Rebecca S. Worth, Lorenzo Donvito, Imogen Arate, H.E. Fisher, Eric Rawson, David Romanda, Alexander Lowell, Sherri Levine, Margarita Serafimova, Sarah LaRue, Kashiana Singh, Christina E. Petrides, Dale Champlin, Christoffer Felix Wahlberg, Joshua J. Hines, Lora Robinson and Nadia Telenchuk.