Publications.
Fiction.
Whale Watching with an M16 — Collateral Journal
“All I’m saying is that after surviving multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, getting chomped in half by that goofy-ass whale from Free Willy during a fucking training exercise would be an embarrassing way to go”
Meet me at the quarterdeck — BULL
“That’s what so many civilians don’t seem to understand. We’re not all gun-toting, dip-spitting, far right fuckheads who want to kill somebody and talk shit to “Lib-tards” and collect American flag tattoos. Some of us, the vast majority of us, are just kids who wanted to go to college, to travel the world, to support our families”
Heartburn and The Morning After — Floodwall Magazine
“He perched on the top of the bleachers and scanned the room. Like any good bird of prey, Mayo knew it wasn’t the strongest or the fastest you zeroed in on. Those kids didn’t need to be hunted. They willingly stepped into the lion’s den the day they graduated and shipped out the same week” — Heartburn
“She heard him drag a chair out from under the table and take a seat. She checked the reflection but couldn’t see him. She tightened her grip on the knife and looked toward her phone” — The Morning After
Nonfiction.
Dirty Realism, Veteran Transition, and Contemporary War Literature — Ploughshares
“The dystopian realism of contemporary war literature adopts the sentence structure of dirty realism and combines it with this insistence on experiencing the extreme. Americans need no grandiose language to help them imagine violence. They live with it every day”