My stomach was doing flips like a professional gymnast on a trampoline. This was not the final inspection on the Parris Island drill...

November is men’s mental health. These prompts were created by “The Lighthouse of Poetry” which is a page dedicated to mental health

It was a Friday. A holy day for the majority of the inhabitants of our fair city. It was around the time it started getting disgustingly...

I was recollecting all the times I had struggled to fall asleep. It felt like thousands, if not tens of thousands, of hours staring

This is a revised essay, the original of which I wrote nearly two decades ago as a High School student. It is about my grandfather.

The book “Left of Bang” is a facilitated version of the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter program. This advanced infantry program consists of...

Review of Poetry Book The Clearing Barrel by Anthony Roberts.

Tears suddenly rolled down my right cheek. It felt as if a channel of magma was tunneling through the granite my face was supposed to be...

A Word Like God is an attempt by author Leo Jenkins to harness these enlightening experiences.

Poetry Book Review: Sangin - Then and Now (by Neville Johnson) published February 10 by Dead Reckoning Collective

It’s hard for me not to react emotionally to the news of Sarah Cavanaugh being revealed as a “stolen valor” con artist.

The new and improved page of Benjamin Fortier Welcome to my creative writing blog! Here you will find a diverse collection of my writing,...

"Enter the Dragon" Fan Fiction I had to take the beating. On all fours in the middle of the back room of the gambling parlor, I tried to...

What Happens When an 8th Grader Reads My Poetry? Their response enlightens me!

An article about how simple machines have changed the landscape of devices and hardware.

A book review of ON ASSIMILATION by Army Ranger Leo Jenkins.

It was a nighttime operation. The only mission was to look for contact. We would find it, just not in the way I had hoped.

No one cared that I had only slept five hours on the first day of our cycle conducting operations from the train station.

A review of the FOX Television Show "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test"

My online social media accounts were filled with praise for our troops (particularly the Marine Corps) for hunting down and killing insurgen