Summer 2026
COMMENTARY ON THE FREEDOM OF CHRONIC ILLNESS
FICTION
How Tommy Learned to Stop Fearing the Rapture and the Bomb, Brian Gifford
Physical Media, Zachary Calhoun
NONFICTION
POETRY
“Greetings from the Amerikan Welcoming Committee,” Rebecca Dietrich
“An ER Waiting Room in Hartford, Connecticut,” Matt Vekakis
“metamorphosis,” Kathleen Hellen
Two by James Coal Jackson
“Fire Protection”
“Flashed Junk Mind”
Two by Dani Putney
“Do you ever pop a Viagra & masturbate to a porn star
resembling your toxic ex just to feel something?”
“<Brilliant>”
Two by Birch Wiley
“Tom”
“Portrait of the Artist in Purgatory”
“End of the World in 13 Emails,” Eugene O’Hare
“Lobby in a Washington, DC Hotel,” Lavinia Kumar
Two by D. W. Baker
“Proverbs 11:4”
“Proverbs 11:9”
“Where Are You From?” Kuo Zhang
PROSE
“Things I Want,” Thomas Johnson, editor-in-chief
Union Spring Literary Review 