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

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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