Soldier
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Effacement of the Mother
When I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Sometimes a story suddenly changes.
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Oh, Say Can You See
Luke Mogelson delivers some short fiction at the New Yorker, about a National Guardsman down on his luck.
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The Throwaways
Nazir lies buried in the mind’s forbidden faraways, on the margin of the village graveyard, obscured by nettle.
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Nicole Antebi and Miki Golod
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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First-Class Guilt
But I had deployed only once to Iraq. When so many others, including friends of mine, had suffered two, three, four, five, or more deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, why should I be the one enjoying the comfort of flying…
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A Conversation with a Soldier
Note: All names have been changed. Major Mark Ross is currently home from Iraq. He has had two tours of duty and will redeploy in a year. He knows he suffers from PTSD and that returning to battle is unhealthy,…