The theme for this issue is PARALLELS. What is a parallel? Never meeting, yet forever running along. Parallels are the lines that never touch yet hold each other in position, the echoes without originals, the histories that breathe in unison across oceans and generations. What does it mean to live parallel to someone you will never meet, to a self you might have become, to a struggle you did not live but somehow carry? This issue explores the parallels that bind us: between words and cultures, between friends and lovers, and even between worlds. What parallels run through your life? Whose story runs alongside yours? We hope you’ll feel and explore the symmetries within the pages of our newest issue.