My Two Years As A Communist By Mel Goldberg Until January 27, 1973, all young men were required to register for the Selective Service and were eligible to be drafted into military service. A month after I had turned 18 in 1955, I received my letter telling me to report for the mandatory Selective […]
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Joss By Kenneth John Clarke Returning to his village of Nam Hkek near Burma’s Salween River, Ko Tat walked through the jungle following the clear stream that flowed into Khem lagoon. As he arrived in an open clearing and stepped off the path to relieve himself under a tall banyan tree, he heard the
Daffodils © Marlyn Silverstone In the ’70s, they built condominiums at the edge of town, red brick three-storey buildings each neatly encased in a rectangle of green lawn. And around the borders of these lawns they planted daffodils. Daffodils abound in this suburb, dominating not only the land around the condos but also
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Legion Of Merit By Robert Bruce Drynan Rural road approaching Baghdad – August 2008 Carl Henderson hunched over the wheel of the humvee as it thundered down the dirt road toward Baghdad, throwing up a billowing rooster tail of dust behind it. It worried him, because the dust trail could alert ambushers ready to
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The Incident By Pete Soderman petesoderman@gmail.com May, 1966, aboard an American Destroyer — somewhere off the coast of Vietnam I was in the middle of a heated game of follow-the-bitch with some guys down in the engineering spaces, when the 1MC crackled to life with the familiar “BONG, BONG, BONG! General quarters, general quarters,
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Border Mexchanics By Tom Eck It was foolish to ignore the subtle but assertive grinding noise under the hood of my 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, now pushing 185,000 miles. Especially when I knew I was facing a possible two-hour wait at the San Ysidro border crossing into the United States. But it was sheer
A Trek To Ajijic By Dennis A. Crump Long before the road from Chapala was paved, long before a stop light, long before the Libramiento, La Floresta, Vista Alegre, or Riberas del Lago. Long before the Malecon or raising the muelle and construction upon it, long before houses and businesses lined the highway from
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The Presentation A Short Story by Rob Mohr I was at peace, focused on the majesty of mixed hardwoods that surrounded me, when a young woman, more doe that human, jumped a log and came to a breathless stop beside where I stood. Her face unleashed the force of the wind of the past
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Bless Me Father For I Have Sinned By Armando Garcia My twin, Fernando and I walked slowly down the aisle, each with his girl partner toward the altar to receive communion. We wore white shirts, black shoes, and the new navy blue slacks that our parents had tailor made in Tijuana, just south of
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A Chip Off The Back By Mel Goldberg “Take your shirt off, lie down on the towel, and stretch your arms out above your head. Put a piece of it in your mouth. This is going to hurt like hell.” “Can’t you give me something? An aspirin, maybe?” “Don’t be silly, man.
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