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Tag: Vietnam
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 Poetry by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
New poem by Cheney Crow: “The Grey Phone”
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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 Fiction by Pavle Radonic: Murder, War and the Dead
An old unsolved murder mystery in a foreign sea-port. Ship Captain the victim, done nobody any harm. Who killed Capta…
New Fiction by Bob Kalkreuter: “Unhitched”
He remembered that day. God, did he remember it! His worst day in a year of worst days, a day he’d spent the last six…
New Nonfiction from Joan Stack Kovach: “What He Wore”
He was always a very sharp dresser. Firstborn child, he toddled around in a merino wool coat from Lord&Taylor and…
New Fiction from Michael Loyd Gray: “The Song Remains the Same”
Dalton bought a used F150 in Kalamazoo with oil rig money and drove north to a trailer he owned south of Mancelona. I…
New Nonfiction from Leah McNaughton Lederman: “Man of Steel”
There’s a solid history of stupid when it comes to fireworks at our family cabin at the corner of Pennsylvania…
New Nonfiction by Carol Ann Wilson: “Live Oaks”
‘Tis a fearful thing to love What death can touch. To love, to hope, to dream, and oh, to lose . . . by Judah …
New Nonfiction from Philip Alcabes: “Peppina”
1. A Child A neglected box in the back of my closet contains a contain a collection of items from my father’s apartme…
New Nonfiction by James Wells: “Signs”
June 27, 2008 I count between my mother’s breaths: one-thousand one, one-thousand two. Thirty minutes ago, her …
New Fiction from Matt Gallagher: Excerpt, ‘Empire City’
Reprinted with permission from Atria Books. Mia Tucker woke before the alarm. She usually did on weekdays. She was a …
Poetry Review: “The Light Outside” by George Kovach
George Kovach’s poetry collection, The Light Outside, begins with a narrator who’s stuck holding open a window. He’s …
New Essay from Claudia Hinz: The War at Home
Michael Florez felt called to the Marines. “No greater love than dying for your brother,” the 42-year-old Oregon resi…
New Poetry from D.F. Brown
So, Who Wants to Walk Slack? Because we have no home in language We keep memories there As if the past were true And …
THE WORDS ON THE INTERNET SAID MICHAEL HERR HAS DIED
Where were you when Michael Herr died in 2016? What were you doing? Did you listen to the opening voiceover of Apocal…
Noble Accounts: American War Stories, American Mothers, and Failed American Dreams
In the social history of our country, the current cultural moment may seem particularly conducive to division, denial…