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JOSEPH S PETE: Man Down

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The combat medic raced toward the bombed-out Opel as tracers ripped overheard.

Lower limb fractured. Gunshot to shoulder. Both cat-Cs.

His distal pulse was good. Four hours to evac.

She looked back, gave a thumbs up.

Then a mortar round engulfed them.

Again, a warbling voice cried out, “man down!”

Joseph S. Pete is an award-winning journalist and Iraq War veteran whose literary work has appeared in The Grief Diaries, The Roaring Muse, Prairie Winds, Blue Collar Review and other publications. He orders off the secret menu.

JOSEPH S. PETE: Front Page Story

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The reporter looked away as the private’s family marched out to face the television cameras. A soggy flag drooped at half-mast on their porch. They spoke of a kid who led rubber band fights, flashlight tag, bicycle jousts. His pen paused, hovered. A phrase consumed his mind: pornographer of sorrow.

Joseph S. Pete won a four month’s supply of Pabst Blue Ribbon by placing second in the poetry category of the 2010 PBR Art Contest. John Donne couldn’t say the same.