
Short stories, essays, and interviews focused on what happens when life changes.
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Sam Alaimo is a former teammate, writer, thinker, former Navy SEAL, and the author of What Then?, where he contributes weekly dispatches on meaning, hardship, and much more.
In this interview, we discuss our brief overlap in the SEAL teams...
One of those days between Christmas and New Year’s when trees are still up, families have gone home, and no one is quite sure what to do with themselves, I arrived and found the door cracked. I took a moment, reconciling the image I’d been...
I was twenty-four years old 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. R...
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...
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...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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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