Some of us write about real experiences, even in fiction. Some of us engage in absurdity, full-on imagination based on nothing more than an idea. The rest of us fall between, writing about hopes and dreams, fears and nightmares. Those fears can be compelling subject matter; at least, that’s what we thought when we published C.J.’s Spataro’s prescient virus story, “The World As We Know It” in Vol. 30.1 last year. With its eerie opening line — “We live in a season of viruses.” — the story boldly predicted some of what we’re all experiencing right now. As Spataro recently told us, “I feel like the story is haunting me. When I wrote (it), I was sort of doing what we all do when we write, playing a game of what if.” What if, indeed. We decided to post this story again on our website now not to create yet another trigger or to dwell on the scariness of viruses and pandemics, but as a reminder about the power of literature to help us make some sense of what’s going on around us and inside of us.