Jeffery Hess is the author of the novel Beachhead and is the editor of the award-winning Home of the Brave anthologies. He served six years aboard the Navy’s oldest and newest ships and has held writing positions at a daily newspaper, a Fortune 500 company, and a university-based research center. His stories—many of which appear in this collection—have appeared in O-Dark-Thirty; Midway Journal; Noir Nation, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Plots with Guns, and The MacGuffin, among others. He lives in Florida, where he leads the DD-214 Writers’ Workshop for military veterans.