The Piano Wire 7:42 a.m., August 17th, 1943. Doadura Airfield, New Guinea. Technical Sergeant James McKenna crouched beneath the left wing of a P-38 Lightning,…
They say twenty years in a classroom gives you eyes in the back of your head. That’s a lie. What it actually gives you is…
At my mom’s birthday, my brother’s son threw my son’s drawing into the fire and yelled, “Nobody wants his crappy art anyway.” Everyone laughed. That…
I was drowning in my own lungs when my sister leaned over my hospital bed and tore the oxygen tube straight from my face, her…
I pulled into the driveway just after sunset, the sky still carrying the last streaks of dying gold, and for a moment I let my…
Camp Swift, July 1945 The medical examination room at Camp Swift smelled of disinfectant and summer heat. Afternoon sunlight pressed through screened windows, turning dust…
The $300 Tractor The auction was winding down on a Saturday afternoon in March of 1979, and most of the serious bidders had already left.…
May 7th, 1945 — The Day Patton and Eisenhower Broke May 7th, 1945. In Reims, France, General George S. Patton walked into Dwight Eisenhower’s headquarters…
The ballroom of the Grand Plaza Hotel smelled of white lilies and desperate ambition. It was a scent I knew well, though usually, I encountered it in…
The silence in the conference room of Harper & Dunn was not peaceful; it was the suffocating quiet of a held breath before a car crash. I…





