September 2023

Call for Submissions from Military Brats (past and present)

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Connie Kinsey, the Museum of the American Military Family and Learning Center’s Writer-in-Residence, is pleased to put out a call for stories for our newest anthology “Home: It’s Complicated.” Where is “home” to a Brat? What makes home a home? What does it feel like to “move home” or “leave home”? Is home a person, place, or thing? This topic is timely–we at the museum are asking this same question for ourselves! Later this week we will post further details on the project–but for now, sharpen your pencils, warm up your laptops, and think about home

The Puppy

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I stared at my beautiful, evil wife and realized the horror had only just begun. 

Sabrina was gorgeous, like her name, in that mid 1960s way — full-bodied, statuesque, thick glossy black hair and impossible blue eyes.  She was what the old folks called Black Irish — that mating of the Spaniards with the Irish during the Spanish Armada.   

I had been woefully unprepared for life with her, having married a scant two weeks after meeting.  I was besotted.  Another old-fashioned word, but it is the only one that will do. 

Photo by Barcs Tamás on Unsplash

Asleep, I had felt that uncomfortable sensation of being examined. I rolled over and she was glaring at me – knife in hand. 

Sabrina!  What the hell!  What are you doing? 

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