The Hemlock Journal Issue 08 ( Summer Issue 2025) includes selected writings of various authors and poets and artists who have submitted to the journal during the call for submissions. This is a collection of diverse voices from across the globe.

West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he’s a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc an...