THE TRANSITION
Benjamin Davis, Mark Twight, Lethal Minds JournalShort stories, essays, and interviews focused on what happens when life changes.
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TRANSITION INTERVIEW #24: Mark Twight
I was 24 the first time I deployed. I spent six months in a three-story concrete block of a house, a few hundred feet from the Gulf of Aden. The “gym” we had was in an open-air courtyard—ten-foot walls, concertina wire. Rusty plates and ket...
Party of Three
I’d almost finished my first drink when I noticed her. From the bar at the Roosevelt Hotel I could see the two of them in the booth by the window. She’s laughing about something. A real laugh. The kind where her head tilts back and her hand...
Usefulness
On Wednesdays, late morning, I’ll find myself turned toward the window, staring at a tree, trying to follow a conversation in the next room. When that happens, it’s because a speech therapist is at our kitchen table working with my three-ye...
Anhedonia
We moved to Cedar Park that year, to a larger house in a new neighborhood called Pheasant Run, where every house looks the same. One morning not long after we moved in, I stood in our bedroom in the dark, placing pants and a shirt into a du...
TRANSITION 2025 Year in Review.
Thank you to everyone who spent time reading The TRANSITION this year. Toward the end of 2024, it became clear that the challenges veterans face when leaving the military are, in fact, not unique to service, but human challenges, often felt...
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Short stories, the occasional essay, and interviews that expose the way we experience life after significant change.
I spent twenty years climbing mountains. I trained military personnel and Hollywood actors, wrote essays and books, made some photographs and spoke some words. Dogs changed my life. I am very in love with Blair Speed (aka Full Speed).
The Lethal Minds Journal is a veteran created art, culture, and foreign and military affairs media publication.
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