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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

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

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
Poetry, Special Issue

Ready or Not by Frank Light

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…

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May 21, 2022
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
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

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
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

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

The Soldier by James Piatt

The pale, lonely man exists in a patchwork put together-life, his parts held together with Elmer’s glue, and bailing wire. His soul… dark brown like Bourbon and Coca Cola; he is…

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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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    Table of Contents: Issue 4

    July 1, 2019

    Arabella by T.J. McGowan

    September 1, 2019

    Roaming Yellowstone by Suzanne Cottrell

    July 1, 2019
  • 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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    On the Proper Use of Mosquitoes by Roppotucha Greenberg

    January 1, 2019

    Time Whitewashed in Snow by Yuan Changming

    July 1, 2019

    When We Were Neanderthals by Raymond Luczak

    July 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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    21: Eris Bears A Daughter, Names Her Uncertainty by Madeleine Corley

    May 1, 2019

    The Birdkeeper by D. Brody Lipton

    January 1, 2020

    The Cobbler by Jay Bechtol

    October 1, 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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    Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022

    This Is The Room Where We Tell Stories About The Future by Jonathan Payne

    October 1, 2020

    coffeehouse window seat. by Taryn Dixon

    May 1, 2019
  • 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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    Photography in Geneva by Suzanne S. Rancourt

    September 1, 2019

    Overslept by Judith Kingston

    January 1, 2020

    Inland by Lucía Orellana Damacela

    November 1, 2019
  • 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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    Kabuki Lessons by David Lohrey

    September 1, 2019

    Letter from the Editor

    November 1, 2019

    Time Whitewashed in Snow by Yuan Changming

    July 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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    One Hundred Years of Dreaming by Chris Collins

    January 1, 2020

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

    May 15, 2022

    Photography in Geneva by Suzanne S. Rancourt

    September 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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    The Bone Dance by Lucy Whitehead

    July 1, 2020

    The Happy Idiot by Robert Pope

    November 1, 2019

    Love and Alzheimer’s by Anannya Uberoi

    July 1, 2020
  • 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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    Sojourn in Panama by Stephen Anderson

    November 1, 2019

    Unturn This Stone by Aviva Treger

    March 1, 2019

    The Three And A Half Lives Of Euphemia Stauton’s Dress by Amanda McLeod

    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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    Bioluminescence by Rabiu Temidayo

    November 1, 2019

    Any Measure by J.L. Lapinel

    October 1, 2020

    Trap Holds by Nick Perilli

    March 1, 2019
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