The July Issue '26
Land of the free, home of the brave... This. Is. America. Too Dramatic?
His Manly Invasions by T. Dallas Saylor
A found-text poem using text from the Declaration of Independence
The Alley House by Elaine Ashley
Rowan and her friends stumble upon a haunting, but the heat gets turned up when a Ouija game goes haywire.
The Flag at Dollar General by Timothy Ngome
An outsider’s darkly comic reflection on America as a chaotic, lonely, generous, and stubbornly hopeful country held together by absurdity, reinvention, and people who somehow keep going anyway
independence day by Sidney Butler
What would you do if you found out your no good lying father was signing the Declaration of Independence?
Eat the Rich by Austin S. Harris
A billionaire moves into a strange new apartment complex that hides a sinister secret
Free for the Taking by Ann Hoekstra
A forager gathering free greens off the unsprayed edge of a field behind a grocery store traces her small rebellion back through the whole American habit of surviving on the land — and the people — nobody else wanted.
The Hounds by Victor DeBianchi
A man is haunted by visions of hounds in a dystopian but familiar America
