'Tis a season we are apt to lose our heads, as does Santa on Walter Smart's cover for this issue. And what better way to ascend beyond the limits of our tawdry civilization than by reading the contributions inside, by Jacob M. Appel, Corina Bardoff, Christopher Bernard, Tori Bond, Kevin Boniface, Christopher Boucher, Ian Boulton, Steven Breyak, Marvin Cohen, Alec Demitrus, Jack Foley, Jake Goldsmith, Tyler C. Gore, Nick Holdstock, Kurt Luchs, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Meirose, M.J. Nicholls, Paolo Pergola, Randy Prunty, Mike Silverton, Paul Stanbridge, Terese Svoboda, Eileen R. Tabios, Rodrigo Toscano, and Thomas Walton?