Publications
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What Did You Expect?
Hey! Here’s a picture of me, back in the day. Below it you’ll hear modern-day me reading a creative nonfiction story I put together with the help of the good people of Wrath-Bearing Tree and So Say We All (Veteran Writers’ Division), about the kinds of things that were going on at the time this picture was taken….
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No Beer on the Drop Zone
In an anthology chock-full with revealing poetry and prose, more than 50 emerging and established military writers unpack their stories of sacrifice, hardship, joy, and laughter in uniform!
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Move Out
I drum the steering wheel of the rental car with the flats of my palms. It’s the opening riff of a song by Yaz. It takes three notes, four—that blossoming into a fanfare of electronic horns, and I’m a teenager in the 80s driving these same roads in Ingrid’s crap Toyota, bellowing along. “Don’t make…
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Mem-war
I’m sitting in the CONEX, just a fancy shipping container really, that serves as our office at the port in Antwerp. It’s January and the skies are as drab as the thousands upon thousands of vehicles parked on hundreds and hundreds of acres of concrete pads at the edge of the docks, all straight lines…
