Wrath Bearing Tree

From the December @WrathBT - a harrowing account of illness and parental love from Jennifer Crystal's 'One Tick Stopped the Clock': “Can’t you give her something for the pain?” My mother pleaded with whoever was in the room, someone in pink scrubs. “We can’t give her anything until a doctor sees her.” “Then, please get a doctor,” my mother cried. "They’re all busy with other patients,” the woman replied. “There are several people in more serious condition than your daughter.” wrath-bearingtree.com/2024/12/new-no…

A selection a day from our last issue of the year. Here, powerful poetry in December's @WBT. "Hearts and Minds," by Nathan Didier We came to provide help that you didn’t want. We came to provide security you didn’t need. We came to provide schools that you didn’t care about. We came to provide a government that didn’t work. We came to provide democracy you didn’t understand. We came to provide infrastructure you wouldn’t take care of. We came to provide a better life that you didn’t ask for. And we kept spilling our blood and couldn’t understand how you could be so ungrateful. wrath-bearingtree.com/2024/12/new-po… photo by @wrathbtpoetry

Catch up on the last @WBT of the year! Fiction, Michelle Brady, "Thirty Broken Birds" "[we] drove dazed & shaking back to camp. But before we left, they agreed to provide us water and internet, so the Major said all in all, it was a successful journey." wrath-bearingtree.com/2024/12/new-fi…

“Once upon a time he’d believed that art had a moral value: a rightness conferred by the universe on that which was beautiful to look at.  Then he spent time in ballet companies.  He’d seen what these beautiful people did to each other. “ wrath-bearingtree.com/2024/09/new-fi… @WrathBT

GREAT ISSUE @WrathBT

Burn pits increased risk of asthma, heart problems, new DOD data shows buff.ly/3WFHNvR

@NeedBirds The best!!

@NeedBirds How did she even put up with it

@AmericanGwyn We were about to stage an intervention

Regretting something I said during a podcast interview today, so let me clarify: You do not, under any circumstances, “have to hand it” to Judge Holden.

The new COLLATERAL LITERARY JOURNAL is out! Come support our best buds (and literary conference table pals) at Collateral! The military writing community is a close one, folks. Amazing work from writers on themes of war, peace, loss, love. collateraljournal.com

It's almost Derby time. Here, editor @Andria816 reviews C.E. Morgan's amazing 'The Sport of Kings,' about intersections between racism & horse racing. It's fascinating, moving, bonkers, Darwinian, everything. Did you know the man who rode Aristides to victory was a former slave?

Said panel:

When @WrathBT gets ahold of the white board at #AWP:

mail.aol.com/d/list/referre… GET LIT (erary) with @WrathBT

As @amalieflynn likes to say, "New tee, who dis?" If you get one, DM us a picture! Anonymous Twitter person will make an inept awkward collage. (These are SUPER comfortable & high-quality. It's actually all we wear at @WrathBT. None of us owns a single other item of clothing.)

@JamesTateHill We like to say, "The *thinking* about writing is part of the process," and then we stare into space. It's not as productive, though.

Diving deep into the novel today after filing an essay yesterday & I'm finally maybe starting to feel like a writer again. I never didn't feel like a writer, but the writing part does help.

What?! It's our editor-in-chief, Travis Klempan. When people say the writing community is competitive and not mutually supportive, we whisper, "Have you heard about the....*military* writing community?" @MilspeakF @tracycrow1 @NeedBirds

Happy 4/20. I think we are all chuckling our heads off about this. Well played, @wrathbtpoetry .