In this issue of SixByEight Press, we’re exploring notions of ‘romanticism’ as a philosophy and method of preserving and performing the desires and wishes of our dramatic selves. The narrative tensions particular to concepts of ‘romance’ — whether in pleasure or pain, in love or loss — play significant roles in how we process the world around us and its many relationships. Could it be that in ‘romanticizing’ something, we also make it more valuable?