Fiction
“Fighting Ghosts” by Jack R. Johnson
“A Resurrection Story” by Phil Carson
“A Drone Story” by Lucas Randolph
“The Black Silk Stockings” by Ginger Dehlinger
“The Toughbox” by Craig Gridelli
“Or Worse” by Ben Weise
“The Last Daugther of the Civil War” by Jillian Danback-McGhan
“Simple Things” by Erik Cederblom
Nonfiction
“Trapped” by Stanley Ross
“Where the Hell Are You Going?!” by William Gritzbaugh
“Action Figure” by Bettina Rolyn
“Don’t Mean Nothin‘” by Larry Moss
“May Girl” by Michael Dedrick
“National Service: A Life Threatening Experience” by Richard Bramley
“Homecoming” by Art Foster
“The Meeting” by Erik E. Gize
“Victory March” by Aliza Dube
“A Soldier’s Fate” by Travis Harman
Poetry
“An IED Blast Survivor Runs a 10K Race” by Carlin Corsino
“After Tet” by Michelle DeRose
“one of my life’s loves is exploited by the navy: a triple sonnet” by Christian Aldana
“Girl in the mirror/in your eyes” by Katharina Breide
“Oh, Mama” by Nancy Austin
“The Beard Brushes the Stones” by Michael Ball
“Bongsusan Mountain” by Chad Corrigan
“Snowdrop” by Deborah Baxter
“Fresh Flower” by Nelson Randall
“Memento Mori” by Connie Kinsey
“After” by Cathleen Lundy Daniel
“semper fi” by Patrick Dennis Riley
“The Ebb and Flow of Half-Moons” by Andrew Lafleche
“Ambush” by Michael Foran
“Bravely Fought; Unkindly Wounded” by Jerry L. Staub
“Honor Rearranged” by Blake Ringer
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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin
Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt
Poetry Editor
Randy Brown
Associate Editors
Tammy Ortung
Beth Johnson
Jerad Alexander
Dale Waters
Melinda Canny
Cover design by Tif Holmes