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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 13

Autumn 2020 | ISSN: 2374-3816

 

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Fiction

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“Twelve Human Spleens” by Khanh Ha

“How to Keep a Secret” by Ash Bittner

“The Last Time” by Rick Turton

“The Arcade” by Justin K.B.

“A Sentinel’s Twenty-One Steps” by Devin Vandriel

“Dreamtime” by Mick Hayden

“Pleasure Barges” by Corey Schultz 

“Final Respects” by Ellen E. Kazimer 

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Nonfiction

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“On Death: A Seventy-Seven Year Perspective” by Dennis Maulsby

“Twenty-One Guns, a Trumpet, and a Fistful of Roses” by Anthony Ventre

“Duty Phone” by Peyton Roberts 

“Overflow” by Susan Polizzotto

“Thousand-Yard Stare into the Future” by James Wells

“Red Clay” by Joe Manus

“Storm Warning” by Joe Manus

“Range Fire” by Steven Miller 

“Homecoming Soldier” by Karen Lethlean

“A Dark Place” by James Meyer

“A Star is Born” by Tammy Ortung

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Poetry

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“Local Business” by Charity Winters

“A Farmer Drops His Pitchfork & Picks Up an AK-47” by Joshua Hilderbrand

“A Regular Day in 1968” by Dennis Maulsby

“After Morning Muster” by John Davis

“Waterline” by Kris Wolverton Blevins

“Gorgonized” by Steven Croft

“IED” by Steven Croft

“Home for Christmas” by Susie Wilson

“The First Gulf” by Ruth Q. Leibowitz

“Standing Under” by Rachel Ashworth

“Soldier Man” by Faye Carlile

“Flyover” by MK Punky

“Where Was I” by Kai Zwiebel

“Supportive Choice” by Shiela Scott

“It’s Just Eight Weeks” by Dan Heck

“May Day” by Louis Faber

“The Day Before Leaving” by Arantxa Hernandez

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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin

Managing Editor – Fiction
Daniel Buckman

Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt

Poetry Editor
Randy Brown

Associate Editors
Melinda Canny
Ray McPadden
Tammy Ortung
John Dailey
Sarah Maples

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cover image designed by Tif Holmes

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Who We Are

Military Experience and the Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose primary mission is to work with veterans and their families to publish short stories, essays, poems, and artwork in our biannual publication, As You Were: The Military Review, periodic editions of Blue Nostalgia: The Journal of Post-Traumatic Growth and others. To the best of our ability, we pair each author or poet that submits work to us with a mentor to work one-on-one to polish their work or learn new skills and techniques.

Our staff is based all over the country and includes college professors, professional authors, veterans’ advocates, and clinicians. As such, most of our services are provided through email and online writing workshops.

All editing, consultations, and workshops are free of charge. Veterans and their families pay nothing for our services, and they never will.

Under our Publications tab, there are more than two dozen volumes of creative work crafted by veterans and their family members as well as a virtual art gallery. Our blog posts feature short pieces that cover a wide range of opinion editorials, literary reviews, and profiles on veteran artists and writers.

Please consider spending some time navigating our site and reading and seeing the fine work of veterans and their families from around the globe.

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