War narratives consist of multiple themes related to people’s recollection of the violent past, imagination of the future and reflection on the present. More importantly, such narratives offer possibilities to explore how victims, perpetrators and ordinary people construct meanings associated with wartime violence, torture, disappearances and other wartime events. By revealing different vantage points to look into a particular event, narratives from different sources offer varying accounts of the war. Hence, narrative research has found a significant position in anthropological studies related to war and peace. The post-conflict period in Nepal witnessed a significant growth in anthropological studies on the decade long war. There are still ongoing efforts to explore various issues related to the war such as participation of men and women in the war, memories of war in various forms, and other areas that might have remained overshadowed by dominant narratives of the war. This paper attempts to explore how violence as an experience is remembered and represented in various forms in the narratives of the Maoist combatants. One of the major areas focused by this study is on these imageries of violence in relation to the gendered notions attached with masculinities and femininities. Being a victim, a survivor or a perpetrator of violence in the past is one’s part of an identity in the present. Hence, there are both ‘limits’ and ‘inventiveness’ brought in by the combatants in their narratives that suggest that narratives undergo process of selection which is influenced by their interests as well as memory. Furthermore, the paper also argues that narratives help us understanding how socio-cultural aspects such as gender, class structures, and power relations become influential factors in socio-cultural constructions of meanings associated with wartime experiences. This paper is based on an ethnographic study in a village in the western belt of Dang district where I spent about a month talking to the former Maoist combatants, their families and other villagers. Their narratives included their experiences of violence before, during and after the war. By adopting narrative research as an approach in studying about wartime experiences, this paper highlights both significance and challenges of the narrative research.