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As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 17

Autumn 2022 | ISSN: 2374-3816


Fiction

“An Honorable Man” by Dale Waters

“How Earl Chanser Came Out Smelling Like a Rose” by Stephen Sossaman

“Hide and Seek” by Taryn Frazier

“Home Cooking” by Edward Ahern

“Pre-Deployment Brief” by Lina Marino

“Hope Humbly Then” by Cathleen Lundy Daniel

“Secondhand Smoke” by Connie Kinsey

“Dime-Store Soldier” by Charles Merwin

“Routine” by James Donzella 

“On Watch” by Ryan Hopkins

“Dry Hole” by N. Jed Todd


Nonfiction

“The Wind Witch” by N. M. Campbell

“A Conversation About Duds: Pineapple Fields Forever” by Patricia McGuire-Hughes

“If Not Here, Where? When?” by Frank Light

“Beyond Tears” by Krista Puttler

“Ring Around My Truth” by Beth Liechti 

“At the Wall” by Steven Miller

“War and All That Jazz” by Larry Moss 

 


Poetry

“Paratroopers” by Kevin Knight

“How to Take a Combat Shower” by Chad Corrigan

“Roll Call” Chris Allen

“Exorcism” by Doug Bradley

“A Wish Unfolds” by T.A. Dugan

“A Sailor’s Daughter” by Anastasia Simms

“A Letter to My Father at Sea” by K. Carlton Johnson

“Army Brat” by Leah Chuffins

“Shadows crept in” by Almyr Bump

“Daylight in Autumn” by Stephen Sossaman

“Winter Sandstorm” by Eran Eads

“Excerpt from Come You Masters of War” by Craig Challender

“Veterans Day” by Hugh Findlay

“Four Wars” by Mary Ann Noe

“War Changed My Grandpa” by Justin Patrick

“Warrior’s Wife” by Suzanne Austin-Hill

“Dorian Gray” by N. Jed Todd


Artwork

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"Disasters of War in East Ukraine" | Dmitry Borshch
“Disasters of War in East Ukraine” | Dmitry Borshch

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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
Tammy Ortung
Elliot Woods
Beth Johnson

 

Cover design by Tif Holmes

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Copyright 2022, Military Experience and the Arts, Inc.

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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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