This is sneak preview of a working project about Eddie Slovik, a soldier executed for desertion in World War II, by BL Pawelek.  Enjoy!

January 31, 1945.

“It is too cold out there to shoot someone.”
Slovik heard the line from Morrisson and pressed deeper into his jacket, deeper into the corner of the barnhouse, deeper into this corner of the Vosges Mountains.
The military police had lost the keys to his handcuffs, and the metal dug a bit deeper. Blood before the blood.  They searched for a hacksaw to release his hands before walking outside. Nothing yet. There had been a blizzard for two straight days, burying this part of eastern France, stalling all business in the area. Almost stalling this business. There would be no practice. There would only be time for short prayers. Continue Reading »

In our latest issue of creative non-fiction you are invited into the worlds of incorrigible plant clippers, worlds-removed and not-so-distant neighbours, called to witness what it was like living in the echo of NATO bombs falling on Serbia, and to understand the shifting plurality of identity in the digital age.  Each of these stories is as true as any word on a page may be.  Enjoy.

Alan Garvey

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