
Category: true stories


Just call me Maggott…………An essay by William Marshall
I asked him about it. My mentor, my pal, the one who would sit in my room for hours and ask me to look up parts for him. We were in Korea, he was dreaming […]

I won’t go on tape……… An essay by William Marshall
I like to interview veterans. Yesterday, Skipperville, AL, I was fixing a washer. Daughter, about my age, feeding her mother in a hospital bed. She said mom has Alzheimer’s. Easy fix on the washer, I […]

It’s on film……… an essay by William Marshall
That’s the problem isn’t it. We can’t deny it then. We can’t ignore it. We can’t look the other way for long because it can be rewound and replayed. It’s not just racism, it’s every […]

No, really? Diesel Exhaust Fluid? Come on………. An essay by Will Marshall and David David M. Poehlein
Not knowing diddly squat about diesels, I feel like someone is also going to ask me to pick up a few boxes of grid squares, muffler bearings, and blinker fluid. Diesel Exhaust Fluid, now I’ve […]

Reverse bucket list, What’s one thing you won’t do again……… An essay by William Marshall
My buddy listed his as, “I won’t run out of ammo again.” Wow, some of my friends sound militant. I guess maybe that is because they are. We are. I was trained just like […]