Tag: literature
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The President’s Peace by Todd French
It’s grueling (the wait and see) and we are hoping, walking onPins and needles like an Egyptian plover in the crocodile’sJaws, picking food from the teeth. Will it stand? For a day,An hour, minutes: what I know in spite of Scripture, is thatRight now, we are past the bare minimum of anthropoid andThe terrorists are…
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“California Conquered What the Krauts Couldn’t” by Todd Anderson
Boot camp was a bitch in heat. The young man with interrupted college had matriculated enough units while at Rutgers, and more importantly, had stripped down and reassembled his M1 under immediate duress from his D.I. in impressive enough time so that he entered the war a second lieutenant. Suddenly, he found himself a second-wave…
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Coming Home by Paul Clayton
Jack sat at the kitchen table, sipping his morning coffee. For months he’d been struggling. A week earlier he had called his brother, Dan. Dan was married, really married. He couldn’t decide what cut of beef to buy without consulting Marge. Jack hadn’t complained about his aloneness, merely mentioned it in passing, like talk of…


