Spring 2026 | ISSN: 2374-3816
Fiction
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“Standard Procedure” by Halle Mosser Reasner
“Hammer and Fish” by Erik Williams
“A Place to Be” by Benjamin Inks
“Mama’s Night Out” by Aliza Wyman
“Next of Kin” by Mark Kessel
“Goat Roping in Islamabad” by James Breitweser
“Leave” by Kyle Larkin
“Ministry” by Alana Davis
Nonfiction
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“REFNO 1492: The Marine the Government Lost and Abandoned in Vietnam” by Ron Martz
“Pink ID” by Scooter Smith
“Nature and War: A Juxtaposition” by Tyler Stevenson
“God is Happy: DEROS 1970” by William Gritzbaugh
“How to Find a War” by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
“The Marksman” by Carlton Clayton
“Don’t Thank Me for My Service” by Tammy Ortung
“Burial at Sea” by Erik E. Gize
Poetry
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“Only They Know How” by Thierry D. Hall
“Incoming Embrace” by Daniel W. Ross
“V, But Not for Victory” by N. Jed Todd
“Ode to Those in Stone” by M. Minford-Meas
“Victory” by Jonathan Graver
“Ode on Final Protective Lines” by Brendan Dawson
“Horizon” by Jeffery M. Bishop, Sr.
“Graduating the Sergeants’ Academy” by Brendan Dawson
“War Cry” by Stan Kempton
“A Soldier’s Battle” by Aaron Shaw
Artwork
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Editor-in-Chief
David Ervin
Managing Editor – Nonfiction
Brian Mockenhaupt
Poetry Editor
Randy Brown
Associate Editors
Dale Waters
Jerad Alexander
Jillian Danback-McGhan
Sarah Maples
Tammy Ortung
Beth Liechti Johnson
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Cover design by Tif Holmes
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