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• Work Cattle for a Week, and You’ll Understand Why We Eat Them March 19, 2026
  2020 05 15 Friday, early afternoon Work cattle for a week, and you’ll understand why we eat them. I was breathing like bellows in a forge, heaving air in and out of my lungs as deeply and evenly as possible. My work boots felt like they weighed eleven pounds apiece, and I could feel every […]
  K.C. Aud
• Operation Unified Response: My Ghost March 19, 2026
  By Ryan Reyes A red Toyota cargo van backs up to the EMEDS tent, brake lights flowing through the bitter dust that had been stirred up as the vehicle approached. Port au Prince slum “Cite de Soliel” is visible in a haze. Small fires dot the landscape and smoke drifts into my nostrils. This is […]
  Special Guest
• Mondegreens, and Other Things You Didn’t Know March 18, 2026
  Language is a fragile thing. We like to pretend it’s precise, orderly, and governed by rules, but in reality it’s held together by context, habit, and a lot of wishful thinking. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the phenomenon known as the mondegreen. If you’ve ever confidently sung along to a song only to […]
  Charles Faint
• Where Duty Turns to Doubt March 18, 2026
  Dearest Mom, The hardest thing about writing these letters is the fact that I can’t really talk about anything I do. It makes for rather dry material, and often enough I try to write something and find it too poor a product to call my own. But one thing I can write about is my […]
  Special Guest
• Battling PTS: Choose Not to be a Statistic March 18, 2026
  A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with PTSD, I knew something in my head wasn’t right, but I refused to do anything about it. Big tough Army guy, suck it up buttercup. Well, I went to see a head doc and yep the shit I had been exposed to throughout my 25yr career […]
  Jay Lajoie