Meet the Authors - Tom D. Nolan and D. Thomas Minton

Tom D. Nolan Tom D. Nolan's contribution to In the Trenches is a short story titled "If A Picture." It was inspired by a real experience. Mr. Nolan walked into an exhibition of Johannes Mattheus Koelz's paintings on a rainy day in Leicester, England. It changed the way he thought about war and conflict in general. In "If A Picture," God comes to Koelz in a dream during his military service and grants him a wish that forever changes his life.

Mr. Nolan lives in Birmingham, UK. His writing to date has been primarily for performance with work produced on tv, radio and stage. He recently placed second in the 2014 Story Pros screenwriting contest.  D. Thomas Minton D. Thomas Minton's contribution to In the Trenches is a short story titled "Portraits from the Shadow." It's the story of a Vietnamese man who goes to America to search out an American photographer who snapped a picture of his North Vietnamese father during the war. Both the American photographer and the Vietnamese man in search of information about his father are haunted by the war, each in his own way.

Mr. Minton recently traded a warm tropical island for the Pacific Northwest of the continental USA, where he now lives a short walk from vineyards and an alpaca farm. When not writing, he gets paid to "play" in the ocean, travel to remote places, and help communities conserve coral reefs. His fiction has been published in Asimov's, Lightspeed, andDaily Science Fiction and his idle ramblings hold court at dthomasminton.com.