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EDITOR’S NOTE

The pieces in this issue explore tiny moments of love: salvaging a lost bouquet, loving across silence, attempting to know someone as well as yourself.

Sarah Paye describes the difficulty of a push/pull love—“You and I meandered in thermal space, a dimension created by hot breath over distance”—while Jen McConell describes so-called “alcothesia:” “When you forget—mid-argument—why you were fighting with your spouse and concede the point so you can enjoy the free cocktail hour.”

These writers show us love that is fierce, unpredictable, painful, jewel-box small, and incontainably large. We invite you to hold these pieces close and breathe them in.