With summer upon us, so, too, is the continuing fall of a certain "empire." So why not sit back and watch the ongoing disintegration with The Opiate, Vol. 42 in hand? This edition features fiction, nonfiction and poetry from Steve Novak, Barry Fields, Antonia Alexandra Klimenko, Arthur Davis, Ken Post, Salvatore Difalco, Renshaw, John Tricarico, Priscilla Atkins, Frank Freeman, Gaia Huaira Capizzi Candiracci, Hedy Habra, Sophie Roy, Kathryn Adisman, Xavier Jones, Jonathan Ukah, John Grey, Onix N. Vanga, Stephanie Watkins, Jennifer LeBlanc and Robert Witmer.