Fiction
“The Army Heirarchy of Needs” by Madeleine Schneider
“Sergeant Beggs” by Harry Gordon
“Alpha” by Travis Klempan
“Thrift Shop” by Charles McCaffrey
“The Roof of the World” by Tim Lynch
“Home for the Holidays” by Zhyronn Carter
“Tây Ninh” by Charles Jacobson
Nonfiction
“Crazy” by Jim DiCillo
“My Canteen” by William Gritzbaugh
“Rocket Town Lompoc” by Clara Swart
“Cradle to Graves” by Christopher L. Izant
“Playing War” by Keith Kopp
“Arriving” by Hannah Donigan
“Independence Day” by Maura Cool
“257” by Sid Macken
“The Guard Tower” by Casey Clifton
“Snowfall on Babylon” by Shane Aldridge
“Shared Sacrifices” by Lucas Maas
Poetry
“Unrest” by Colin D. Halloran
“Thoughts on Love and War” by Colin D. Halloran
“Afghanistan” by Daniel W. Ross
“PTSD” by Oliver McKeithan
“Insight” by Michelle Carlson
“Together We Grow” by Michelle Carson
“It” by Blake Rondeau
“Another Army Poem” by Anthony Albright
“Ode to Beauty” by Jennifer McKeen Rodrigues
“November Remembrance” by S.D. Bassett
“Not on My Watch” by Jerry Staub
“Ouroboros” by Alyssa Souza
“Ekphrasis on the memory of a 23-year-old” by Sophie Dufresne
“I Retired Too” by Montoya Baylis
“Picture in a Battered Frame” by Deborah Baxter
“And Now We Stand” by Misery
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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin
Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt
Poetry Editor
Randy Brown
Associate Editors
Jerad Alexander
Jillian Danback-McGhan
Dale Waters
Beth Liecthi Johnson
Tammy Ortung
Cover design by Tif Holmes