Sneak Preview: Heartlanders

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“Heartlanders” earned an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Ark Prize Contest, one of three manuscripts to do so. The publisher received more than one hundred entries, with a word limit of 80,000, and nothing more than a prompt of ‘America 2076.’ Imagine a story like National Treasure, a setting like Fallout, and a roster of characters like G.I. Joe, and you…