An Alternate View of Moral Injury Introductory note: I originally composed this essay between 2022-23. I’ve gone back…
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New Poetry by Douglas G. Campbell: “The President’s New Children’s Crusade”
New Poetry by Douglas Campbell: “The President’s New Children’s Crusade”
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New Poetry by Sylvia Baedorf Kassis: “Detritus”
New Poetry by Sylvia Baedorf Kassis: “Detritus”
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New Nonfiction by Kyle Abbott Smith: The Superman Fight
Fights within the infantry were common enough that their variations came to be source material for a dark form of in-…
New Fiction by Jake Bienvenue: Chasing Colonel Sandro
Dr. Maldonado fiddled with the picture of his hot wife and blonde sons, making sure I noticed. Hot professors are rar…
New Fiction by Robert Miner: Shades of Purple
Danny Llewellyn hadn’t shit himself since he was a toddler, back when nobody minded. Since then, he’d joined the Army…
New Fiction by Jesse Nee-Vogelman: Improv
The terrorist sat down at the cafe at a quarter to one. She had always been punctual. Beneath her clothing was a bomb…
New Poetry by Richard Epstein: “The Dance”
New Poem by Richard Epstein: “The Dance”
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New Poetry by Ellie J. Anderson: “Impact, 1984”
New poem by Ellie J. Anderson: “Impact, 1984”
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New Interview by Larry Abbott: Doug Rawlings
Doug Rawlings had his life planned out: graduate school, business school, eventual law school, and a career in busin…
New Poetry by Peter Mladinic: “Fist”
In Okinawa I made a fist and my fingers stuck together that stop over night my one stop before Danang, between…
New Poetry by David Burr: “Harvest”
Hurl of metal – iron, steel – as shrapnel,
as bail hail, as HE detonation, all
forged and spi…
New Nonfiction from Per-Olof Odman: “Mystery Mountain”
In the remote and forgotten northwestern corner of Vietnam looms the vast, rugged and rain-drenched Hoang Lien Mounta…
New Fiction by Dwight Curtis: “The Thirty-Two Fouettes”
The chair came to a stop and with great effort, haltingly, the figure lifted himself to his feet. He took a single j…
New Poetry by Jayant Kashyap: “The War”
New poetry by Jayant Kashyap: “The War”
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New Poetry by Phillip Sitter: “Krakivets, Odyn” and “Elemental”
New Poetry by Phillip Sitter: “Krakivets, Odyn” and “Elemental”
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New Nonfiction by Avory Schanfelter: “Condition Black”
Time in a combat zone passes strangely. When you are surrounded by the incredible, the human mind has a tendency to d…
New Fiction by Adrian Bonenberger: “Checkpoint”
Every two or three months Jon and Steven would meet for lunch at the McDonald’s outside the town center where Main S…
New Nonfiction by Michael Jerome Plunkett: “Four Letter Words: A Meditation on Fuck”
The most versatile piece of equipment an infantryman carries is a four-letter word. It can be used in almost every co…
New Fiction by Dion Wright: “Your Land”
“Drone up,” said Lieutenant Levi. Heads turned and eyes followed the drone’s swift ascent to the sequoia canopy 350 f…
New Review by Maggie Gamberton: Nancy Stroer’s Playing Army
A Game of Soldiers – A Review of Playing Army by Nancy Stroer LT Minerva Mills is a hot mess. Literally. We mee…
New Poetry by Shawn McCann: “All I Can Do Is Watch” and “No Way To Fight Back”
New Poetry by Shawn McCann: “All I Can Do Is Watch” and “No Way To Fight Back”
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New Poetry by Kathleen Hellen: “People Boats” and “Pretending There Is A Garden In The Spring, Paradise In Time”
New Poetry by Kathleen Hellen: “People Boats” and “Pretending There Is Garden In The Spring, Paradi…
New Nonfiction from Patty Prewitt: “Missing Amy”
Missouri inmate Patty Prewitt has been in prison for almost 40 years. She is serving a life sentence for the murder o…
New Fiction from Matt Jones: “The Fisherman”
“You coming to work, New Guy?” Sailor asks, and I snarl at my nickname. Dude gives me the creeps—somehow they …
New Nonfiction from Tom Keating: “The Lobby”
I am careful with the coffee tray. It holds four coffees and one tea for my guys in the VA hospital lobby. Everyone w…
New Poetry by David Dixon: “Last Night, I Dreamed of the Korengal”; “Look at This Thing We’ve Made”; and “War Poetry”
New Poems by David Dixon: “Last Night, I Dreamed of the Korengal;” “Look at This Thing We’ve …
New Poetry by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
New poem by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
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New Interview from Larry Abbott: “The Visual Diary of Danish Soldier Henrik Andersen”
Art After War: The Visual Diary of Danish Soldier Henrik Andersen As the memory of U.S. participation in the Afghanis…
New Nonfiction by Krista Puttler: “Traversing the Gate of Tears”
Dubai is one gigantic, grey strip mall. “Does anyone know why they call this place Dubai?” I look away from my bus wi…
New Fiction from Steve Bills: “Bombing Pearl Harbor”
29 April 1971 From: Naval Science Department To: Midshipmen Second Class, Navigation and Piloting 301 (NAV 301) Subje…
New Poetry by Joshua Folmar: “Sudoku”
New Poem by Joshua Folmar: Sudoku
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New Poetry by Lawrence Bridges: “Time of War and Exile” and “Taking an Island”
New poems by Lawrence Bridge: “Time of War and Exile” and “Taking an Island”
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New Poetry by Marty Krasney: “Where We Are Now”
New poem by Marty Krasney: “Where We Are Now”
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New Poetry by Matthew Hummer: “Amortization”
New poem by Matthew Hummer: “Amortization”
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New Poetry by Linnea George: “Course Correction”
New poem by Linnea George: “Course Correction”
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New Fiction by Bryan Thomas Woods: “Dirt and Bones”
Somewhere near the Hải Vân Pass, Vietnam, 1969 I found her body tangled among a thicket of vines on the jungle floor.…
New Nonfiction from Kevin Honold: “The People of Cain”
But vnto Kain and to his offering he had no regarde: wherefore Kain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance f…
New Fiction by Sándor Jászberény: “Honey”
1. A rocket hit the village. I woke up to the sound of the explosion. My eyes widened, I jumped out of bed, put on my…
New Nonfiction by Dean Hosni: “The Cartoon War”
October 6, 1973. Los Angeles. The stack of newspapers sat in front of me on the brown shag carpet, and next to it was…
New Poetry by Almyr Bump: “Plowing Water”
New poem by Almyr Bump: “Plowing Water”
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New Poetry by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat”
New Poem by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat (Loyalty)”
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New Fiction by Adrian Bonenberger: “King Tide”
We’d been expecting the fascists for a few days but they’d gotten hung up on Newark. Usually they moved fast. C…
Peter Molin’s “Strike Through the Mask!”: The Clock Strikes Twelve
My year-long run as guest-columnist for The Wrath-Bearing Tree comes to an end this month. I’m not sure if WBT founde…
New Poetry by D.R. James: “Surreal Expulsion”
New poem by DR James: Surreal Expulsion
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New Poetry by Pawel Grajnert: “Michigan”
New poem by Pawel Grajnert: Michigan
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New Fiction by J. Malcolm Garcia: “An Arrangement”
I escaped to America after my fiancé, Farhid, died. He was an officer in the Afghan National Army in Bagarm when he w…
New Fiction by Jesse Rowell: “Second Skin”
Alpert Nelsen had lost a toe. He just didn’t know it yet. Not a big toe. One of the smaller ones. It got infected whe…
New Nonfiction by Larry Abbott: The Photographic Self-Portraits of Ron Whitehead
There Is No Such Thing as an Unwounded Soldier Ron Whitehead works in a variety of photographic series: Eye of the S…
So Say We All and Wrath-Bearing Tree Collaborate!
In collaboration with So Say We All‘s Veterans Writing Division, founder Justin Hudnall and The Wrath-Bearing T…