Fire and Forget II: Brian Van Reet’s “Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek”
Brian Van Reet’s “Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek” had me with its opening lines: A few weeks ago, Sleed and I loaded onto a sleek tour bus. We filed behind a gaggle of other “wounded warriors” –the...
View ArticleFire and Forget III: Mariette Kalinowski’s “The Train”
Mariette Kalinowski’s “The Train” is the first story I know of by a woman vet who experienced combat and which portrays women in combat. If it is in fact the first such tale, then it’s guaranteed that...
View ArticleMore Notes Toward a Supreme War Fiction: Ryan Bubalo, Fire and Forget, Phil...
“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” is the title of a long Wallace Stevens poem that includes the lines: Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. Later, Stevens...
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