In this episode, we sit down with Kyle Seibel. He is a Navy veteran, copywriter, and author of the kinetic story collection Hey You Assholes (Clash Books).Kyle shares the unlikely nudge that set him on a writing path. We dig into how military garrison life, corporate bureaucracy, and blue-collar jobs inform his fiction; why short stories feel truer to the episodic way we remember our lives; and how humor and heartbreak can toggle line by line. We also get into performing stories on stage, the discipline of finishing “novel-shaped objects,” and why war writing matters: to resist being reduced to a single tidy paragraph.Bio: Kyle Seibel served seven years in the U.S. Navy with tours that included a helicopter squadron, a Reserve Seabee battalion, Bahrain, and the final deployments of the USS Enterprise. He moved into advertising as a copywriter and began publishing short fiction. His debut collection, Hey You Assholes, is out from Clash Books. He reads widely, writes daily when he can (and in sprints when the work demands it), and believes the short story is not a waystation to the novel but a destination all its own.