She had left her M-16A2 service rifle unmanned. She had left it in the fighting hole at the edge of the perimeter of our company’s position during a training field operation on Camp Lejeune, NC. She had left her M-16A2 service rifle in a fighting hole and climbed out...
Janna is a fiction writer living in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and daughter. Her work has been published in Raleigh Review, Every Day Fiction, and elsewhere. In 2019, she was selected as the recipient of an NEA-funded fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Florida. She is a United States Marine Corps veteran.