Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Congrats to a Marine
Congratulations to Phil Klay for winning the National Book Award for his short story collection, Redeployment. A well-deserved honor for a Marine Corps veteran.
Read MoreA Very Short Short Story About Iraq (with apologies to Ernest Hemingway)
You’re flying along on a combat airlift mission over the Sunni Triangle. External lights off, plane blacked out, night-vision goggles on. Baghdad fell just days ago. Just a few miles from Saddam International Airport–it has yet to be renamed–a burst of tracer fire comes up off the left wing. Needles spearing up into the night.…
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