Selected for this issue of Pantheon Magazine are stories that breathe Aphrodite. It is filled with love and beauty, in an imperfect and ugly world. In here, a researcher plunges a syringe into her arm when her marriage becomes stagnant, with unexpected results. The arrival of otherworldly creatures makes mankind question the implications of their coming, and a car full of death heading towards Pennsylvania to find their next victim finds something else entirely. These stories and more in this collection inspired by Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, procreation, and pleasure.