Howard Pearre served in the US Army from 1966 to 1969. He is retired after a career as a counselor and manager with North Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. He received an honorable mention for a short story “September, 1957” at the 2020 International Human Rights Arts Festival, and his stories have appeared in Flying South, GreenPrints, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is a board member of Winston-Salem Writers.