Lauriel-Arwen Amoroso, winner of our first Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest, weaves survival from school gun violence with the self-love required to remove oneself from the site of trauma in “A Room with No Windows,” the opening piece of this volume. “Marie Kondo Guides Me Through Yet Another Psychotic-Depressive Episode” by W.C. Perry exclaims, “What a joy it is to be organized and breathing!” (page 59). This volume’s cover art, Before Rain by Kaitlyn Muldez, captures the striking calm, beauty, and despair specific to Florida’s impending, sometimes destructive, storms. Meanwhile, Lucie Pereira laments familial rejection and Catholic homophobia in “heaven is empty and all the angels are queer.” Pereira concludes, “If paradise won’t have me when I die, / I’ll find it here” (page 75). Poignant with the complexity of what it means to survive, to endure, to be human, these pieces render a fresh account of what it means to “find [paradise] here.”