We were the HMDs: the human mine detectors. In a sense the job was easy, but impossible to do well. There was no good…
Brian Van Reet
Brian Van Reet is the author of Spoils, named one of the best books of 2017 by the Guardian, Military Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, he has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. He lives in Austin with his family.