JW Heacock

An attorney for twenty years and a veteran of two tours in Iraq, JW Heacock retired from the military, earned a Masters in English at Belmont University, and left the practice of law to write full time. JW has been published in The Esthetic Apostle, Kestrel, and the Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review, and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award. JW was NPAF Artist-in-Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park in October 2019, where we began "Freeing Gettysburg's Ghosts," a combination of short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry addressing the legacy and mythology of slavery and war.

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Edgar thought they’d travel in a chartered jet. He’d never flown on one before, but he knew the Company used them when they needed feet on the ground ASAP. Cantor Fitzgerald was the Company’s biggest client, generating millions in revenue each year, which he figured would make them charter worthy.

Issue 34, February 2020

JW Heacock

An attorney for twenty years and a veteran of two tours in Iraq, JW Heacock retired from the military, earned a Masters in English at Belmont University, and left the practice of law to write full time. JW has been published in The Esthetic Apostle, Kestrel, and the Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review, and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award. JW was NPAF Artist-in-Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park in October 2019, where we began "Freeing Gettysburg's Ghosts," a combination of short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry addressing the legacy and mythology of slavery and war.

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Edgar thought they’d travel in a chartered jet. He’d never flown on one before, but he knew the Company used them when they needed feet on the ground ASAP. Cantor Fitzgerald was the Company’s biggest client, generating millions in revenue each year, which he figured would make them charter worthy.

Issue 34, February 2020

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