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Poetry, Special Issue

When I write about the military by Ron Riekki

I get hot.I get hit by memories of the hot heat that ate our heads.When I write about the military, I get confusedabout dates,but I rememberthe fire,the way that ghosts…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Aberrant Thought While in a Check-out Line by Ed Ahern

It’s okay to cry or smile in private,but if among others, even strangers,displaying our mood is at bestbad manners, and at worstdemented behavior to be evaded. But would it not…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Come Home Soldier by Christina Ciufo

American flag, half mass withthin canary lights penetrating through its creases, waving, while he solemnly walked downthe paved road, with his head half-lowered, veiled by the flag’s shadow.  Green eyes dimmed, like a melancholy flame…

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May 15, 2022
Flash Fiction, Special Issue

Lava by Robert Libbey

“You a thief like your friend?” called a voice from the back room. The tips of my fingers left prints on a dusty soap wrapper. “You have any tissues?” I…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Honor Box by Janet M. Greenstreet

Worn and tattered, the Western Union telegram holds her heart within its folds. Shall I make wedding plans for Thursday or Saturday? She will wait for him to send word.…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Valor Concealed by Jason O’Toole

Finally, Paris.Way of Utah Beach,Battle of the Bulge,              Buchenwald. “Now Entering GermanyCourtesy of the Super Sixth” Grandpa as a young tourist.First trip abroad,stops along The River Seine.Garand over shoulder slung. Handsome in…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

Dartmoor speedmarch ’6630 miles, do or die,de-humans, rake-thin,carry loads on backs.Thick boots, breath-beaten,noses, jaws, like bladesof cattle boneslittered on route. Men of arms,of Four Five Commando,see beyond the upland hill-rim;a…

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May 22, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

A Graveyard for Soldiers by James Piatt

In a graveyard for soldiers under a frowning moon, birds eschew the crumbs of dry bones of dead warriors, dogs curve around the boundaries as they sense the odor of…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

You saw someone without a face waiting in whitesitting on your hospital cot against the dried-up paneled wall of our living room. we were watching Antiques Roadshow He arrived a few days…

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May 15, 2022
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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Soldier’s Lament by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    He’d have got meif I hadn’t got him first but I took a lifeI will always be alone I will take him with meto my graveGod rest his soul ____________________________________________________________ Matthew M.C. Smith is a Welsh poet from Swansea. He is published by Icefloe Press, Wellington Street Review, Seventh Quarry,…

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    Mr Spaceman by John Grey

    July 1, 2019

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    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Khormaskar by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    In 1967, the Royal Marines were sent to South Yemen to support the evacuation of the British from the port of Aden, a colony. My father was in Four Five Commando unit.                      I Aden, South Yemen, ‘67,Empire’s light on eastern straits.Blades beating, rotor thunderWestlands thump, ascend, gyre;break, split from assault…

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    Letter from the Editor

    May 1, 2019

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    January 1, 2019

    The Space Between Moments by Alexis Hunter

    January 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    Dartmoor speedmarch ’6630 miles, do or die,de-humans, rake-thin,carry loads on backs.Thick boots, breath-beaten,noses, jaws, like bladesof cattle boneslittered on route. Men of arms,of Four Five Commando,see beyond the upland hill-rim;a promise of rainto a green beretbeyond spit, pain. Checkpoints of stones,jokes are thin,frame-ache, sting of sweat,body-rack past forest trackswhere whippet-lads leadand…

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    Bill Evans on Kind of Blue by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019

    In February by Rodd Whelpley

    July 1, 2019

    A Reminder of What Went Before by Judith Kingston

    November 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Ready or Not by Frank Light

    May 21, 2022 /

    Hearing no evil, fearing no manprospective friends alreadycomfortable in their own sins and pancho linerssleep the sleep of regular hoursundisturbed by passing showersundetected scouts or unresolved doubtslet alone the zoned-out still up-and-about newbie too many days in transit, temporarily moodyantsy, goosy, small-town rube with much to prove, Repo Ray broods heblew his…

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    Women of Flesh by Sophie Gregory

    March 1, 2019

    On London Bridge on Hallowe’en by J.E.A. Wallace

    May 1, 2019

    The Nymph and the Maiden by Laura Kincaid

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    At the Airport by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    I bring our children with chestnut hair.We mixed ourselves making them, saw we faredwell in an untested marriage.  For a decade, thin cottonwrapped the bed.  At night, all poverty forgotten. But we separated again—he went to war, mortars of nailsand oven air.  At home, I handled homework and ailments.I knew…

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    Dien Bien Phu, 1954 by Wayne Turmel

    March 1, 2019

    Before the Fall by Scott Elder

    January 1, 2020

    Lovely Waiting Stars by Paula Earnest

    September 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She crochets upstairsfrom his lonely chair,tuning out the rockets of July-smoke sky. For bills not flags, yetshe chained her youthto the steel of his military-morgue toe-tag. Under lashes like willows, still she weeps,feeling how his fingerslast brushed along hers.  Her dreams pull skeins,and months of stitchingare years she blankets in…

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    This Shattered Sky by Evan James Sheldon

    January 1, 2020

    The Nymph and the Maiden by Laura Kincaid

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    Nourishment by Ray Ball

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She’s mentally moving him in, refreshing the drawer of cotton undershirts, stackinghis tees in rectangles, ironing polo collars. His irises will glow again as sapphire and jade waves of shirts layering the marriage quilt. She’s moving over, moving over to her own side of the bed. They’ll fuse their     divided ship, co-captain it. Yet…

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    Mayday by David Hartley

    July 1, 2019

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    March 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    You saw someone without a face waiting in whitesitting on your hospital cot against the dried-up paneled wall of our living room. we were watching Antiques Roadshow He arrived a few days before silently walking around the house room to roomrustling corner cobwebs. Our conversation lingered over who he might be what he may wantwhy only…

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    Combustible by Gale Acuff

    July 1, 2019

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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    From a pallet on the ground I write home that my shrapnel wound is healing.I joke about being named to the hospital’s board of directors. This is not like any medical facility I have ever seen: dirt floor operating room, a single light bulb swinging overhead, air sprayed with blood…

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    January 1, 2020

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    April 4, 2020

    Table of Contents: Issue 2

    March 1, 2019
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    Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills laugh at such fools. I advance gray and numban odd levitation—no sensation in my body. Remembering my younger self rowing across…

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    Souls to sell, bots for hire by Russell Hemmell

    January 1, 2019

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    July 1, 2019

    Pantomime by Robert Grant

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