Written in and against the COVID-19 lockdown, this issue holds the claustrophobia and the unexpected intimacies of a world held indoors. Fiction about guilt, waiting, and folktale; poetry from across the globe about rage, bodies, and social media; non-fiction on identity and hair; and the now-canonical short stories The Waiting and Sada The Sin Eater make this an issue that will outlast the pandemic that occasioned it.