• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

MAYDAY

  • Culture
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Nonfiction
    • Contests
  • Translation
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • About
    • Submit
      • Contests
      • Contest Winners
      • MAYDAY:Black
    • Open Positions
    • Masthead
    • Contributors

Nicholas Cormier III

Nicholas Cormier III
Courtesy of Nicholas Cormier III

NICHOLAS CORMIER III is a Veteran of the United States Air Force where he proudly served as an Air Traffic Controller. He is a Writer, Actor, and Director. Nicholas graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied Art with a concentration in Film and a minor in Theatre. He also graduated from Texas State University with a Masters in Business Administration. He owns Runner Films, a film and video production company, and enjoys serving the community through outreach along with volunteering for Veteran-Centric service organizations. Nicholas has a passion for advocating for the homeless, those with mental illness, and substance abuse issues in Los Angeles, California. He is a USC Warrior Bard and a member of UCLA Wordcommandos Veteran creative writing workshop.

He Went That Way
by Nicholas Cormier III

December 17, 2020 Contributed By: Nicholas Cormier III

Resist

They approach in a tactical formation. I hear boots, that familiar sound from basic training. Shuffling feet out of step. The numbers are unclear, more of them than me. Sit. That’s the instinct. No victory to be had in the fight. There’s a fight. They push me over. I crawl out into the middle of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Posted On: December 17, 2020

Primary Sidebar

Recently Published

  • Caterpillar by Dragana Mokan
    translated from the Serbian by John K. Cox
  • Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year, 2022
  • Warrior
    by Lane Falcon
  • Inside the Kaleidoscope
    by Jane O. Wayne
  • Two Poems by Luis Alberto de Cuenca
    translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Trending

  • Eight Contemporary Female Irish Artists to Fall In Love With Immediately
    by Aya Kusch
  • Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year, 2022
  • Sellouts 1970: Love Story: The Year a Screenplay-Turned-Novel Almost Broke the National Book Award
    by Kirk Sever
  • George Saunders on A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
    by Brianna Di Monda
  • I Know Who Orville Peck Is
    by Robin Gow
  • Warrior
    by Lane Falcon
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Footer

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Business


Reprint Rights
Privacy Policy
Archive

Engage


Open Positions
Donate
Contact Us

Copyright © 2023 · New American Press

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.