Getting posted to Fort Mirror was a death sentence. The most coveted of all postings, soldiers jockeyed for th…
Issue 064: May 2022
New Fiction from Terry Sanville: “The Metallic Sound of Rain”
Just about every afternoon the wind came up suddenly, stirring the dust that blew through the screens of our company’…
New Fiction from Brian Barry Turner: “Death Takes a Temporary Duty Assignment”
Death had narrowed his search of potential candidates down to two soldiers, both with high kill counts. Qualified app…
New Poetry by Stephen Massimilla: “Wounded”
WOUNDED —to Laura Bleating thing without wool Thunder without sound Ghost of wooded peaks, of cons…
New Poetry by Kevin Honold: “A Brief History of the Spanish Conquest”
A Brief History of the Spanish Conquest Tell me again of that fabulous kingdom where a single ear of co…
New Poetry from Gail Nielsen: “Something Like Nightfall”
SOMETHING LIKE NIGHTFALL something, like night falls slow, as if nothing in the world has ever moved but dista…
New Nonfiction from Ulf Pike: “Tone Deaf”
With a slightly youthful blurring of reality, sandhill cranes resemble pterodactyls in flight. Each year when they re…
Interview with Tom Keating, Author of ‘Yesterday’s Soldier’
Andria Williams for The Wrath-Bearing Tree: I was honored to read Tom Keating’s memoir, ‘Yesterday’…