John Sarmiento

I hold an MA from the University of Guam, where I taught rhetoric, composition, and literature courses. Nomadic by nature, I now live in Denver, Colorado, anticipating a sunrise better than the one I tripped over on the top of Mount Fuji and a rainy day better than the ambush in the Ubud Monkey Forest. My work has been featured in the Guam International Film Festival, Marianas Variety, Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel, and Eclectica Magazine.

The Foxhole in the Front Yard

Gen chased insurgents, rode Humvees across Iraq, peeled walls with the .50 caliber machine gun. Once when he got back home he grabbed his pregnant wife Karen to dig a foxhole in the front yard and she wants mangoes in the morning.
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