The Things They Carried meets Jesus’ Son in this darkly funny and deeply human collection of stories and short fiction tracing the life of Derrick “Vez” Vezchek from the Mojave Desert to the battlefields of the Middle East and back again.

Before the wars, Vez is a reckless teenager drifting through the high desert among addicts, burnouts, and forgotten towns. After multiple deployments as an Air Force Special Operator, he returns home to a different kind of uncertainty—marriage, fatherhood, memory, and the invisible aftershocks of combat.

Spanning interconnected stories, novellas, and the novel High Desert Rats, Battle Rattle and Other Stories explores violence, masculinity, loyalty, humor, and survival in modern America. Brandon Davis Jennings writes with equal parts grit and lyricism, capturing both the absurdity of military life and the fragile moments of grace that persist long after the fighting ends.

Raw, unsettling, and often unexpectedly tender, these stories examine what remains of a person after war—and what it takes to keep moving forward.

About the Author

Brandon Davis Jennings is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran from West Virginia. His best-selling Kindle Single Battle Rattle was selected as an Amazon "Best Book of the Year" in 2016 and was selected for Amazon's Prime reading program and produced as an audiobook by Audible this year. After completing his Ph.D in English, Jennings decided that the best way he could use the skills he acquired during ten years of college was as a stay-at-home dad. He stays home with his daughter, two dogs, and two cats, writing when he's not otherwise occupied by the millions of tasks that other stay-at-home parents failed to warn him about. He is currently at work on multiple novels, and an essay collection: Operation Iraqi Freedom is My Fault due out from Little Presque Books this year.

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