New Poem by Jess Avelino Flores: “This Year”
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New Poetry by Jason Green: “Winter Haiku,” “Spring Haiku”
New poems by Jason Green: Winter Haiku and Spring Haiku
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New Poetry by Wayne Karlin: “What Binds Us”
New poem by Wayne Karlin: “What Binds Us”
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New Nonfiction by Jen Dreizehn: Anticipation
As a reserve unit we had a different family dynamic than the regular army. Since there were only three platoons in ou…
New Nonfiction from Jerad W. Alexander: An Elegy for Videotape
Scott found the videotapes in his garage and brought them into the kitchen. We stacked the VHS in a wine box and the …
New Review by Adrian Bonenberger: Fury, The Tank, and Forgiveness
One of the first things I published on Wrath-Bearing Tree was a negative review of the movie Fury, based entirely on …
New Fiction by Lacie Grosvold: Tora Bora Bargain
It started, and it ended, with a bad bargain in the mountain caves of Tora Bora. I have nothing but time now for the …
New Fiction by Eldridge Thomas III: Glitter
Sometimes I wonder if there’s more Elvis in Vegas at Christmastime or if it’s just my daddy getting to me again. They…
New Poetry by Kyle Hanton: “Deployment, 2017”
New poem by Kyle Hanton
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New Poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
New poem by Nathan Didier: “Hearts and Minds”
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New Fiction by Adrian Bonenberger: Calvary Hill
Captain Abibalus was troubled. Walking up the dusty, cypress-lined path from Kyrenia’s harbor, Abibalus’ practiced ey…
New Fiction by David James: The Infiltrators
Barabbas walked hurriedly down a dusty side alley in the old city of Jerusalem, glancing side to side before furtivel…
New Fiction by Michael Carson: The Childhood of Barabbas
My first memories are of the hills outside Judea. A small lizard, with a black stripe and black eyes, staring at me a…
New Nonfiction by Blake Rondeau: Smile
I remember the smell of the plastic blue gym mats under my face as I grappled another Marine in the hanger bay of the…
New Review by Larry Abbott: Surviving the Long Wars
Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire. Chicago: Bridge Books, 2024. The 4-day 2023 Vetera…
New Poetry by Elisabeth Lewis Corley: “An Loc”
New Poem by Elisabeth Lewis Corley: An Loc
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New Nonfiction: The Footsteps of Giants by David James
All this is to say that pilgrimage is not for religious journeys alone, but for any act of traveling that takes us to…
New Nonfiction: Interview with Adam Kovac
So that’s what I did. I sat down and attempted to write The Great American War Novel. I wouldn’t have sen…
New Poetry by Patricia Hastings: “Dad”
New Poem from Patricia Hastings: Dad
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New Poetry by Faye Susan: “I am the Daughter of a Storyteller”
New Poetry by Faye Susan: “I am the Daughter of a Storyteller”
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New Fiction by Tod Denis: “Drilling Position”
Brendan always felt smaller than the other guys in the locker room. Probably it was their triceps, military tats, and…
New Review by Travis Klempan: Adam Kovac’s The Surge
Whether we wanted it or not, America was – up until this very moment, perhaps – truly the indispensable nation.
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New Nonfiction by Karie Fugett: Excerpt from Alive Day
Dillon crawled in circles on the carpet, the TV behind him glowing with reports of destruction and death. Though it h…
New Interview with Karie Fugett
I think at the time I was just kind of following my orders. And then, by the time I was thinking something’s wr…
New Fiction by Josh Bates: Excerpt from The Baghdad Shuffle
The patrol was unsettling. The initial ‘liberation’ euphoria had soured. It was all bad vibes from the second we exit…
New Poetry by Celeste Schueler: “In Oklahoma, Another Air Force Spouse Tells Me Starlings Are An Invasive Species” and “I First Compared You To A Blue Jay”
Three years before we met,
Friends tell me to stop reading
Virginia Woolf after my suicide
Attempt …
New Poetry from Galen Cunningham: “Winter of Discontent” and “War Games”
New Poetry by Galen Cunningham
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New Fiction by Neil Allen: The Scar
The two boys creep towards the edge of the crater and stare across.
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New Fiction by David James: Oxenstone
Dark clouds were building over the mountains to the north, like Giorgione’s Tempest. I bought a glass of red at the r…
Review of Sheila Dietz’s The Berry and the Bee
Her poetry is rarely sentimental or wildly emotional, but rather steady, wise, and quietly observational.
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New Fiction by Kevin M. Kearney: Freelance
The HYPR Dryver Manual was clear: a Dryver should not, under any circumstances, touch a customer. Simon read and re-r…
New Fiction by J. Malcolm Garcia: Pleasantries
The gauze bandage had come off in his sleep, and he touched a bare patch of warm skin and the tight line of ten stitc…
New Poetry by Sara Shea: “Customs”
New poem by Sara Shea: “Customs”
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New Poetry by Benjamin Bellet: “What Was It Like?”; “Zero Five Thirty”; “West Point”
New poems by Benjamin Bellet
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New Review and Interview by Larry Abbott: James Wells’ Because
He was 39 years old at the time of his death, and left a wife, Betty and three children, Ora, Kathleen, and the young…
New Interview with Kevin M. Kearney
But on a personal level, I don’t think there is an easy way out. I think the real answer is you need to go the other …
New Nonfiction by Matt Eidson: Binge
Sometimes I’d imagine that compressing the areas of fat would break apart the tissue and allow it to dissolve into my…
New Nonfiction by Evan Balkan: In Praise of Awe
It’s hard to define, awe. But certainly we know when we feel it. It’s a rare thing, buried under the onslaught of dai…
New Poetry by Loretta Tobin: “In the Dead Man’s Seabag” and “River City”
A blue ribbon marked
First Thessalonians,
where he had underlined—
Be joyful always;
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Hope and Heartbreak in Kyle Seibel’s “Hey You Assholes”
About four years ago I first encountered Kyle Seibel’s work while volunteering with this publication (Wrath-Bearing T…
New Fiction by Matthew James Jones: Excerpt from Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures
I'd been in Afghanistan for three months when I saw the woman in the marketplace die. Thirty or forty men haggled the pr…
New Interview with Matthew James Jones
Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures (PR&DC) is unafraid to be funny about serious subjects. Can you tell us…
New Poem by John Thampi: “Ad Memoriam”
New poem by John Thampi: Ad Memoriam
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New Poetry by Ben White: “Cold” and “Cold II”
New poetry by Ben White – “Cold” and “Cold II”
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Learning to Fly: The Army and The Airborne Mafia
Sometimes in life, one experiences a shock or a revelation so powerful that it stays with you for years. For me, one suc…
New Nonfiction by J. Malcolm Garcia: And This Is No Matter What
The temperature on this Tuesday morning in Grants Pass, Oregon, is edging up to ninety degrees as Helen Cruz and Just…
New Poetry by Layle Chambers: “Becoming a Lighthouse #1;” “You Find Wonders;” “Pilot Air”
cold laps the shore
no choice but to step in
stride out, stake my place
transmute into tower
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New Poetry by Kathleen Murdough: “He Signed Up”
“This is what he signed up for,”
my mother says when
my brother graduates from West Point.
New Fiction by Eugene Samolin: Narcissus Mask
Olly stood on a chair in his studio with a noose around his neck. “I’ll never love again,” he moaned. He stared at th…