Author: Steven Croft

Installment 42 deploys vehicles (and readers) into position for military action. At once beautiful and terrifying, Steven Croft’s evocative images and tactile cadences put us in the driver’s seat of unfathomable journeys.  *** Entering Sadr City on Report of Troops in Contact Long after the sun’s fireball drops behind the edge of the desert, the sand still sweats heat onto invisible winds.  A quarter moon spins its shadows around mud brick houses, the base of a minaret that looms. I stand in the turret of a Humvee that’s been out all day, the chest-high iron circle of its opening...