Short Story - Roman Skaskiw

1 January 20238 January 2023

Saddam Hussein and the Dark Princes of Love

Television - a story about the Iraq War

Convoy Home

Fire and Forget

Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform

The Tea Party Explained

Iraq, Afghanistan, Literature & Ukraine [Ukrainian language]

22 April 201417 March 2016

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There is a Ukrainian-language write-up of this even in the newspaper “Ratusha”: ratusha.lviv.ua/index.php?dn=news&to=art&id=3436

“Convoy Home” in WLA Literary Journal

15 October 201317 March 2016

The “War, Literature and the Arts Literary Journal” has accepted what I consider to be my best story, “Convoy Home” for publication. It appears in Volume #25 which just came out. Here’s my discussion and review of the journal:

On the Day of Calamity

4 June 201314 February 2023

A strange story from my workshop days has been republished on NHNovella. It originally appeared in the now defunct Steel City Review.

“2010. It was a warm November second or first. The clouds spent the day gathering and breaking apart and gathering again.

The Democrats were poised to take back Congress, and even though we didn’t know too much about politics, my friends and I were all jazzed. We were grad students, and smart enough to know the obvious — that Bush and friends had started a war for oil, that he was evil and/or stupid, and that things were about to change.

I think America felt guilty about our illegal war. I know I did, and a big Republican defeated would vindicate us all.

Anyway, I was en route to a belated Halloween party.” (Read more on NH Novella)