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Poetry, Special Issue

Memories of a Peaceful Time by James Piatt

Screams in broken languages of anguish slash into sand and rock leaving a gory scarlet tint to sandy dust soaring high into the air. A cold hopelessness lingers over the…

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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
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
Poetry, Special Issue

At the Airport by Catherine Zickgraf

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.…

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May 21, 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

Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

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,…

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May 21, 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

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

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
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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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    Creative Study: Fabrice Poussin

    May 1, 2019

    Visupada by Srivalli Rekha

    May 1, 2019

    Letter from the Editor

    January 1, 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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    March of the Dryads by J.B. Stone

    January 1, 2020

    Every Scar Has a Story by Laure Van Rensburg

    April 4, 2020

    Legacies by Darcy Lin Wood

    January 1, 2019
  • 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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    Sojourn in Panama by Stephen Anderson

    November 1, 2019

    A Peculiar Count in Time, Part 2 by M.K. Beutymhill

    July 1, 2020

    Her Left Eye by R. Gerry Fabian

    May 1, 2019
  • 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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    Table of Contents: Issue 9

    July 1, 2020

    Los Angeles, 1952, Part 1 by Wayne Turmel

    September 1, 2019

    March of the Dryads by J.B. Stone

    January 1, 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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    Mr. Walton by Urmila Rampersaud

    October 1, 2020

    The Wayfarer by V.C. McCabe

    April 4, 2020

    Tea and the Weight of Spirits by Janna Miller

    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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    At the Stroke of Twelve by Faye Brinsmead

    September 1, 2019

    morning routine. by Taryn Dixon

    May 1, 2019

    Old World by C.L. Spillard

    March 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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    A Peculiar Count in Time, Part 3 by M.K. Beutymhill

    October 1, 2020

    Letter from the Editor

    May 15, 2022

    Q&A with NYT Bestselling Author Karen Chance

    January 1, 2019
  • 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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    Amidst the Junktique Dealer’s Goods & Moveables by Paula Bonnell

    January 1, 2020

    The Tree Between Us by Grace Safford

    January 1, 2020

    Mayday by David Hartley

    July 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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    A Tale of Peter by Eku Williams

    July 1, 2020

    Above the Ginkgo Trees by Tomas Marcantonio

    July 1, 2019

    The Soldier by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022
  • 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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    Falling Through Time by Kim Michelle Ross

    January 1, 2019

    Arabella by T.J. McGowan

    September 1, 2019

    Old World by C.L. Spillard

    March 1, 2019
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