As You Were: The Military Review, Vol. 18

Spring 2023 | ISSN: 2374-3816


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


Artwork

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"The Tempest" | Wayne David Hubbard
"Portrait of a Military Spouse | Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues
"Pacific Overcast" | Erik E. Gize
"Doctor Kissinger" | Dmitry Borshch

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