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A Walk in the Sun

By | 2019-04-29T20:31:47-07:00 May 2nd, 2019|Categories: Issue 86: 02 May 2019|Tags: , , |

By Milton P. Ehrlich Shooting at each other— more exciting than sex. Blood tastes better than vintage wine. One of our ladies-man guys howls in pain trying to piss. Sergeant bellows: Ain’t you ever had the clap before? If I was not ordered to carry the BAR—slung over my weary shoulder with a torn rotator cuff, [...]

PTSD Pantoum

By | 2019-03-07T08:53:56-08:00 March 7th, 2019|Categories: Issue 82: 07 March 2019|Tags: , , , |

By Jean Waggoner   Me and Apple were out on patrol…. Each story begins with a line like this, the travesty of its grammar a buddy thing for the philosopher-boy turned to grunt. Each story begins with a line like this, a breath-stopping return to war for the philosopher-boy turned to grunt, blank-out humping huge loads, [...]