"The Bottle Rocket War" by Richard L. Davis

 – firecrackers on a stick, launched from tequila bottles!

We had no Francis Scott Key to record our glory and legacy.

Richard (“Rick”) Davis is a retired Air Force colonel with an extensive professional writing history, including some non-fiction material published over the past 40 years. To transition to fiction, he studied with Amherst Writers & Artists and published his first novella in 2014. “The Bottle Rocket War” marks his third offering to PSPP, which earlier accepted his submissions for Lost & Found (spring 2023) and Now or Never (spring 2024). He lives in Elk Grove, California, with his Himalayan cat, Phoebe, and his aging collection of bottle rocket sticks.