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Fiction
“Carrying the Bear” by D.B. Cox
“Message Below the Message” by James Morena
“Tracers” by Phil Robbins
“We, Grits” by J.G.P. MacAdam
“Apogee and Terminus” by Mike Cardwell
“The Fuck-It Bucket” by Mark R. Clifford
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Nonfiction
“An American in Nagasaki” by Laura J Peterson
“Clusterfuck” by Victor Pogostin
“Fireworks on the Fourth” by Milt Mays
“Excluded and Ordered” by Karen Lethlean
“A Midnight Ride” by William Gritzbaugh
“The Lie” by Ben Weise
“On the Other Side” by Rebecca Locklear
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Poetry
“USS Fletcher” by Karen Green
“Uncle Ollie in the Ball Turret” by Billy Thrasher
“Remnants of a Cemetery near Al-Asad, Iraq” Loretta Tobin
“The Body on a Bench in Front of the Chapel” by Loretta Tobin
“Unprocessed Thoughts at 1330 Kuwaiti Time” by Nathan Lim
“The Distance Away, Crumble” by Mervyn Seivwright
“Retrospective” by Michelle DeRose
“Fantail” by Mikayla Nelson
“Requiem for a Wild Weasel” by Dave Parsons
“504th Parachute Infantry 82nd Airborne 3rd Platoon Hill 1205” by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
“Penelope and I” by Ellen E. Kazimer
“Hey Joe” by Ashley Rebhun
“La Cita Bar” by Jacqlyn Cope
“French Kiss” by Charise Hoge
“Bullshitter” by Lily Jarman-Reisch
“Military Moves” by Jennifer Carpenter
“Letters from the Helmet II” by Victoria Dym
“Funeral Flag” by Susan Cenci
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Artwork
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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
Tammy Ortung
John Dailey
Sarah Maples
cover design by Tif Holmes
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