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Bamboo and Bananas

Life and death, love and war, science fiction, PTSD, cheating, swinging, and polyamory in the forms of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fictional accounts.

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  • The Breaking of the “Innocent”- A Story of a Female Marine in Afghanistan
    • The One Where I Discuss Why I’m Writing About Afghanistan
    • Yes, The Chapter Titles Mean Something
    • Part 1
      • Chapter 1- Every Grain of Sand
      • Chapter 2- Offer Up Your Best Defense, This is the End of the Innocence
      • Chapter 3- And I’m Staring Down The Barrel Of A .45
      • It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
      • Chapter 4- Smokin’ In The Boys’ Room
      • Chapter 6- Louie, Louie, Oh No, Saying We Gotta Go
      • Chapter 6- ‘Cuz I’m Broken When I’m Lonesome
      • Chapter 8- Boom Like That
      • Chapter 8- Hold The Line, Love Isn’t Always On Time
      • Chapter 10- Just Walk Away, Renee
      • Chapter 10- Don’t Trust a Ho, Don’t Trust Me
    • Part 2
      • Chapter 13- On Marine Suicide
      • Chapter 12- Welcome To The Jungle, It Gets Worse Here Every Day
      • Chapter 14- And I Was Thinking To Myself, This Could Be Heaven or This Could be Hell
      • Chapter 15- Nightmares And Anxiety And Government Failure, Oh My!
      • Chapter 16- All We Are Is Dust In The Wind
      • Chapter 17- Come On All Of You Big Strong Men, Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again
      • Chapter 18- A Dyke, A Bitch, Or A Whore?
      • Chapter 19- Enter The Young by R.J. Virkler
      • Chapter 16- She’s So Heavy…Heavy, Heavy, Heavy, Heavy
      • Chapter 21- Female Marines in Combat
      • Chapter 17- Get Your Motor Runnin’, Head Out On The Highway
      • Chapter 18- We’ll Make A Film About A Man That’s Sad and Lonely And All I Gotta Do Is Act Naturally
      • Chapter 24- But Damn That Radio Song
      • Chapter 25- I Can Tell That We Are Gonna Be Friends
    • Part 3
      • Chapter 26- I Know That You Are Wrong And This Is Not Where You Belong
      • Chapter 27- Down In the Street There Was Violence 
      • Chapter 28- Let The Bodies Hit The Floor (Warning: Graphic)
      • Chapter 29- Half A World Away
      • Chapter 25- I Won’t Duck And Run
      • Chapter 31- Today Is The Greatest
      • Chapter 27- You And Me, Baby, Ain’t Nothing But Mammals
      • Chapter 33- And Tears Of Joy Stream Down My Face
      • Chapter 34- Oh, Sweet Child Of Mine
      • Chapter 30- I’ve Been Running Down The Road Trying to Loosen My Load
    • Part 4
      • Chapter 36- Hold My Hand
      • Chapter 32- I’m On Top Of The World
      • Chapter 33- I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror
      • Chapter 39- Afghanistan Timeline Adjustments
      • Chapter 34- You’re Gonna Wish These Days Hadn’t Gone By So Fast
      • Chapter 41- Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang, We Love You
      • Chapter 42- I Fall To Pieces (Warning: Graphic)
      • Chapter 37- It’s Your Fucking Nightmare (Warning: Graphic)
      • Chapter 44- You Did Not Desert Me, My Brothers in Arms
      • Chapter 45- The Warhawk’s Prayer
      • Chapter 46- Warhawks Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) 10.1-10.2
      • Chapter 39- We Don’t Need No Education
      • Chapter 48- Brought To You Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue
      • Chapter 49- Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken
      • Chapter 42- The Change Has Come, She’s Under My Thumb
      • Chapter 43- I Mean This, I’m Okay (I Promise)
      • Chapter 52- The Test Begins, Now (Warning: Graphic)
      • Chapter 53- The Crumbling Difference Between Wrong And Right
      • Chapter 54- Ooh, Love Hurts
  • Short Stories
    • Redemption Of The Sea
    • The Dream Traveler
    • Honi’s Water Droplets
    • Remembering Dresden
    • The Final Bug- Chapter 1
    • The Sangria and Sex Story
    • To Cut
    • Across the Record Player
  • Opinion Pieces
    • Military
      • Chapter 18- A Dyke, A Bitch, Or A Whore?
      • Chapter 13- On Marine Suicide
      • Do You Run To Or From An Emergency? (Warning: Graphic)
      • Chapter 15- Nightmares And Anxiety And Government Failure, Oh My!
      • The Sunk Cost Fallacy of the Afghanistan War
      • Chapter 21- Female Marines in Combat
    • Love, Sex, And The Human Connection
      • The One Where I Go On A Hypocritical Rant
      • Everybody Fucks Weird To Somebody
      • When The Sweat Drips: How Exercise Is Like Sex
      • Don’t Shit Where You Eat- Workplace Romance
      • The One Where I Discuss What Love Is To Me
      • On Loneliness 
      • On Always Wanting To Touch
      • Mea Culpa- Through My Fault
    • Philosophy
      • Is It Good To Hurt Bad People?
      • Socratically Rubber Ducking Your Life
      • Becoming Immortal
      • On the Policy of Truth
      • Fading Into The 1500- Social Media and The Great Gatsby Party
      • The One Where I’m Upset That People Don’t Do What Makes Themselves Happy
      • On Complex Thought and Grokking
      • The Time I Was Bent Over And Taken By 15 Men
    • Parenting
      • The Worst Part of Parenting
      • Paragliding For Pussies
  • Alternative Lifestyles
    • Non-Inclusive List of Sexual and Relationship Terminology
    • Sexual Acts As Told By A Marine
    • Polyamory
      • Some Thoughts On Polyamory
      • In My Life, I’ve Loved Them All
      • The One Where I Discuss What Love Is To Me
    • BDSM
      • Everybody Fucks Weird To Somebody
      • Cuz I’d Rather Feel Pain Than Nothing At All- A Captain America Prelude
      • To Cut
      • This Girl Is Half His Age- My Ode To Older Men
    • Swinging
      • I’m In The Middle Of A Breakdown, Watching You Scream
  • Poetry
    • Into A Grey Sky Morning
    • Anchors Don’t Need Air
    • Fire and Hate
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