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Line of Advance Fostering the creative voices of contemporary American military veterans.

Line of Advance sees a nation that fully embraces its veterans, past and present, and gives an ear to the literature being created by these men and women as they reinvigorate modern American society. We believe that the truth of the last ten years can be found in the stories veterans tell. Individual truths, yes, but even more importantly a national, cultural truth that we aren't able to yet see.

By fostering and mentoring these ideas we will be presented with what we hope will be a wiser, more honest version of ourselves, and a wiser, more honest version of America.

Check out this short story by Carl Governale. Happy Tuesday!
21/10/2025

Check out this short story by Carl Governale. Happy Tuesday!

Believe me when I tell you, I never hire off craigslist, but I took a chance on IKEA Joe and cannot oversell how helpful he was. I not only recommend his services, but I must add that my time spent with this handyman was a life-changing experience! Now I will say that he was late and, like a tot

Colin D. Halloran’s poem is heavy. Being a combat vet teaching young Marines can be tricky. He knows what's coming for t...
14/10/2025

Colin D. Halloran’s poem is heavy. Being a combat vet teaching young Marines can be tricky. He knows what's coming for them and puts their interests first even while they pine for war. Good stuff.

Part I: I Watch my Students Prepare for War They say it’s so boring. Not my class, they’re quick to correct, but this, life on base, is not what they signed up for. They want the thrill, the rush the chance to be a hero. And all I want to do is tell them no. No they don’t. That stateside life,...

Another really great poem. The last couple lines of LoShiavo's "Disarming Mekong Delta" are really something. I was goin...
08/10/2025

Another really great poem. The last couple lines of LoShiavo's "Disarming Mekong Delta" are really something. I was going to say something more, but it speaks for itself.

They're white as rice that wasn't thrown at us.  His stack of letters (nineteen-sixty-eight's  Mail, barely legible) was saved, penned straight,    Not far from enemy lines.  Infamous:    The Mekong Delta, toured by cur

Lucas Randolph's "Not Another War Story" reminds me of going to see Platoon with my grandfather in the theater. He fough...
02/10/2025

Lucas Randolph's "Not Another War Story" reminds me of going to see Platoon with my grandfather in the theater. He fought at Remagen. He wasn't amused. He'd probably have liked this story though.

The youngest of the grandchildren was the Old Man’s favorite. Each weekend the Boy would visit and each weekend his grandpa would have a new VHS tape for them to watch together, just the two of them. The movie was always an old western. The black and white ones were the Boy’s least favor

"Ascension, the force that lifts" is a gorgeous poem by Layle Keane Chambers full of longing and what it's like loving s...
30/09/2025

"Ascension, the force that lifts" is a gorgeous poem by Layle Keane Chambers full of longing and what it's like loving someone on the other side of the world. A lot of us have been there in one way or another.

I lay await in blue claire sleep suspended stilled readiness  text ding 2:53 am test (to see if it got to me) I respond yes! with an emoji heart, Amelia’s  voice in my head ‘everyone has oceans to fly…’ and I can’t sleep when you are you tried to call   no go &am

Kathryn Taylor’s “Okinawa Dreaming” has a longing and haunting quality of what could have been. It makes me think of cho...
25/09/2025

Kathryn Taylor’s “Okinawa Dreaming” has a longing and haunting quality of what could have been. It makes me think of choices I've made that my kids will remember in forty years. A beautiful poem.

poetry, Veteran, Okinawa, Navy

Timothy O. Davis captures the quiet desperation of poverty, life without opportunity, and little chance of love in The I...
23/09/2025

Timothy O. Davis captures the quiet desperation of poverty, life without opportunity, and little chance of love in The Itch. It reminds me of movies that scared me as a kid because adult life seemed bleak and unforgiving. It’s a sad and beautiful story.

Joe had felt the hands of cousins and uncles on his back; a mountain of father figures all culminating in weekend trips camping on Badin Lake or fishing at Oak Hollow after church. Joe would come home wet and muddy, and his momma would be waiting for him, barefoot on the cement porch. His cousins wo

J.P. Linstroth's "Sea King" is a great ode to his father and a really cool poem.
18/09/2025

J.P. Linstroth's "Sea King" is a great ode to his father and a really cool poem.

It shook under him, a kind of vibrating jostling, shaking to the bones,              he could feel the carriage of the helicopter under him, as if a horse under him             &n

Richard Stimac’s poem Componere reads like an incantation. Really good work.
16/09/2025

Richard Stimac’s poem Componere reads like an incantation. Really good work.

The dead we loved do not live within us, as if were abandoned frames with broken panes of glass and splintered clapboard shingles that fluttered in strong winds until they peeled like sunburnt skin. We are not the smoothed granite of mortice and tenon crypt walls, or battlefields wi

Poet, outdoorsman, and renowned dog-lover. Eric Chandler’s “Shriek.” He’s the man.
11/09/2025

Poet, outdoorsman, and renowned dog-lover. Eric Chandler’s “Shriek.” He’s the man.

I remember the first time  I dropped a live two thousand pounder it made a picture perfect mushroom cloud there in the desert  like a kid draws it was  a dumb bomb on a  training range south of Phoenix Then the bombs got smarter I got better at dropping them I po

This is awesome. Thanks to Franknews! I’m honored.
11/09/2025

This is awesome. Thanks to Franknews! I’m honored.

"Hindsight makes it easy to memory-hole the endless dumb inspections."

Happy Tuesday! Pleased to bring you this story by Tyler Ayers. It's a good one!
09/09/2025

Happy Tuesday! Pleased to bring you this story by Tyler Ayers. It's a good one!

Janie pulls her day car into the bright lot near the trailhead every morning at 9:30. A security car drives past and the driver nods. She nods her bobbed head and smiles back tightly. She is glad the security people are around. She puts the car in park. Even though the trailhead is a 35-minut

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