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Poetry, Special Issue

War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

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…

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May 21, 2022
Creative Nonfiction, Special Issue

A Memento, In Situ by Lisa Short

Baltimore, Maryland2009 “See here?” says the neurosurgeon, gesturing at the monitor mounted on his office wall with a laser pointer. A bright red dot flares to life, garish against the…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

Whatdoeshesee lookingoutthekitchenwindow smokingacigarette anddrinkingaMillerbeer? Statement from the author: I would get up in the middle of the night and dad would be drinking a Miller beer. Looking out the dark…

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May 15, 2022
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

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

Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

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…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Soldier’s Lament by Matthew M.C. Smith

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 ____________________________________________________________…

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May 22, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Maggie’s Drawers* by Janet M. Greenstreet

Beyond smoking scrub, a red flag rises on a rifle. I hear O’Malley curse the almighty as we all deflate: exhausted, hungry, lice-infested, frozen. Stillness shrouds our brooding group. More hours…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Khormaskar by Matthew M.C. Smith

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…

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May 22, 2022
Special Issue

Table of Contents: Thank You For Your Service

Letter from the Editor Here We AreEd Ahern Aberrant Thought While in a Check-out LineEd Ahern Valor ConcealedJason O’Toole Out in The SuckJoseph S. Pete The SoldierJames Piatt Memories of…

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May 15, 2022
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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Honor Box by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    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. Once received, she will secure a witness and the priest, bake a yellow cake with buttercream frosting and buy some…

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    May 1, 2019

    A Tale of Peter by Eku Williams

    July 1, 2020

    They Did Not Know by Kristin Garth

    April 4, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Maggie’s Drawers* by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    Beyond smoking scrub, a red flag rises on a rifle. I hear O’Malley curse the almighty as we all deflate: exhausted, hungry, lice-infested, frozen. Stillness shrouds our brooding group. More hours on this mountain means no one eats through zero-dark-hundred. I try to imagine what a hot shower feels like. I…

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    Time After Time by P.C. Keeler

    September 1, 2019

    To Waste a Whole Heart in One Kiss by Carys Crossen

    April 4, 2020

    Table of Contents: Thank You For Your Service

    May 15, 2022
  • Creative Nonfiction,  Special Issue

    A Memento, In Situ by Lisa Short

    May 15, 2022 /

    Baltimore, Maryland2009 “See here?” says the neurosurgeon, gesturing at the monitor mounted on his office wall with a laser pointer. A bright red dot flares to life, garish against the white oblongs marching down the middle of the black screen. “These are your lumbar vertebrae—L4, L5 and there, S1.” I…

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    An Elegant Solution by Trisha Lea

    March 1, 2019

    The Nymph and the Maiden by Laura Kincaid

    January 1, 2020

    On a Bench by the Waters of Oblivion by E. Samples

    April 4, 2020
  • Flash Fiction,  Special Issue

    Lava by Robert Libbey

    May 15, 2022 /

    “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 shouted through a rack of comic books.    “Never mind him,” said the old lady at the counter. “Third rack…

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    Memory, Time: A Poem in Movable Parts by Mark Fitzpatrick

    July 1, 2019

    A Lounge Full of Dead Queens by Haley Jenkins

    January 1, 2019

    Mineral Bouquet by Lindz McLeod

    April 4, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    The V.A. Waiting Room, PTSD Counseling, 11 a.m. by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022 /

    I am waiting.I am waitingto go from one roomto another room.I used to waitto go from one baseto another base.I went from a basewhere a guy committed suicideto a base where the instructor drowned a recruit during trainingto a base where a Marine put his gun in his mouthand another…

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    transports by e. smith sleigh

    March 1, 2019

    A Lounge Full of Dead Queens by Haley Jenkins

    January 1, 2019

    The Bone Dance by Lucy Whitehead

    July 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    When I write about the military by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022 /

    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 come on so quickly,like now.             You said not to push myself to hard,but do you understand I would never fucking writethen,that…

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    Tempest by Tyler Wettig

    March 1, 2019

    There’s a Light by Mark Martyre

    July 1, 2019

    Letter from the Editor

    November 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Come Home Soldier by Christina Ciufo

    May 15, 2022 /

    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 on a lighter, cast shattered remints of his sanity. Flashing thoughts, like the English Channel’s restless waves pounding against the sands, remembering dense air,…

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    Shatterback by Gary Power

    May 1, 2019

    Dark Passenger by Ryan Norman

    April 4, 2020

    Relent by Kristine Brown

    October 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

    May 15, 2022 /

    Whatdoeshesee lookingoutthekitchenwindow smokingacigarette anddrinkingaMillerbeer? Statement from the author: I would get up in the middle of the night and dad would be drinking a Miller beer. Looking out the dark kitchen window. Sometimes I would ask him what he saw in War World ll. But he told me nothing about…

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    Table of Contents: Issue 3

    May 1, 2019

    The V.A. Waiting Room, PTSD Counseling, 11 a.m. by Ron Riekki

    May 15, 2022

    RPM by Aditya Shankar

    March 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Valor Concealed by Jason O’Toole

    May 15, 2022 /

    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 his tanker jacket;kept him from freezing in Ardennes. Smiling broadlyunder M1 helmet,because that’s what one did! In those days,that’s what…

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    ‘Flower For Your Sweetheart’ by Chloe Smith

    January 1, 2019

    Mineral Bouquet by Lindz McLeod

    April 4, 2020

    Two Paths to the Cemetery on the Hill by Amy Alexander

    January 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    A Graveyard for Soldiers by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022 /

    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 death, and mothers and wives, oblivious of these things place flowers on tombstones to celebrate life: A blind silhouette of…

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    Loneliness and the Seduction of Fairy Tales by Robin Michel

    January 1, 2020

    Table of Contents: Issue 5

    September 1, 2019

    Unchoreographed Ballet by DC deWinter

    July 1, 2019
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