May 19, 2025 Photo by Pexels.com My latest short fiction, "And the Armies that Remained Suffered," centers around a veteran of our country’s most recent war who's drawn into a furor over a distant one. Clay is back in his hometown, making a prolonged recovery from a wound he suffered in Afghanistan, when a proposal… Continue reading New short story: “And the Armies That Remained Suffered”
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The armies of life
It’s nearly Labor Day and the dragonflies are back, zipping over the deck against a bright blue sky. Somewhere south in the Gulf of Mexico is a storm that might (1) give us some rain and wind, (2) miss us altogether, or (3) come ashore as a full-on hurricane that would send us running for… Continue reading The armies of life