Winner of the 2012 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, SHORTLY THEREAFTER is a memoir-in-verse documenting Halloran's time serving on the front lines of Afghanistan and the beginning of the fallout on his return from war. Poet Brian Turner says "the raw and immediate quality of these poems reinforces the fractured and dislocated self that inhabits the uniform - the self that carries the rifle, the self that returns 'home'"