Incoming features true stories from American veterans and service members, in their own words, surrounding the process of returning home from deployment, and transitioning back to civilian life. Honest, hilarious, and harrowing, these are beautifully crafted and necessary narratives to help readers of any background begin to understand why the most difficult battle often begins once war ends. Featuring stories from Benjamin Busch, Matt Young, Brandon Lingle, G. Michael Smith, Kurt Kalbfleisch, Robert Shaw, Kelli Hewlett, Sierra Crane, Brooke King, C.S. Griffin, Casondra Brewster, Alex Flynn, Samuel Abel, Brent Wingfield, Gill Sotu, Doug D'Elia, Tenley Lozano, Jim Ruland, Zack Dryer, Andrew Szala, Vance Voyles, Natalie Lovejoy, Gail Chatfield, Andrew Miller, Nathan Webster, Derrick Woodford, Anthony Moll, Lisbeth Prifogle, Adam Stone, Eric Strand, Mariah Smith, Samuel Chamberlain, Benjamin Rothman, William Corley, Allysa Kropp, and Rolf Yngve.

Incoming: Veteran Writers On Coming Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Hudnall, Justin

Yngves, Rolf

Evans, Julia Dixon

Lozano, Tenley

Leaders & Notable People

So Say We All

What started in 2011 as a poorly-xeroxed cry for artistic solidarity in the form of a zine, morphed into an open-sourced platform of expression. A like-minded community of artists was formed: poets, authors, artists, photographers, columnists, videographers, journalists, and many more joined together from all over the country to make the eclectic issues a reality. In those flimsy paper copies, the soul of The Radvocate was forged, an irreverent but proud spirit which carries on to this day. The Radvocate is a new kind of literary journal from the San Diego-based literary non-profit So Say We All. The first shot has been fired. How will you respond? This issue features work from Brett Morris, Alex Bosworth, CL Bledsoe, Linda M. Crate, Craig Evenson, David Henson, Philip Kuan, Amanda Tumminaro, Lucy Palmer, Nolan Hutton, Cat Dixon, Gerardo de Jesus Gurrola Jr., Yvonne Higgins Leach, Donna Zephrine, Nicole Martinez, Kathleen Langstroth, Toni Martin, Steve Tague, Elaine Gingery, Kevin McCoy, Marisa Crane, Pouya Razavi, Laura Gwynne, Paul Douglas McNeill II, and Jed Wyman.

The Radvocate #15

Literature & Fiction

Lewis, Matt E.

United States

How to Set Yourself on Fire

Literary

Highbridge Co

"It’s not romantic," Torrey says. "It’s physics. For every letter there is an equal and opposite, you know…letter." Sheila’s life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory. Her only friends are her mysterious, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. When her grandmother Rosamond dies, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr―a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair, piecing together her grandmother’s past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond’s shoebox. As they get closer to unraveling the truth, Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them. Somewhere, there’s an answering stack of letters―written in Rosamond’s hand―and Sheila can’t stop until she uncovers the rest of the story. Threaded with wry humor and the ache of love lost or left behind, How to Set Yourself on Fire establishes Julia Dixon Evans as a rising talent in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Lindsay Hunter.

Dzanc Books

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