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...Paul Nemser © 2013 Paul Nemser 2013 Paul Nemser My Aunt Remembers Whose desire, Mama, drove a fiddle like a bird out of a thicket and across the sea, thinking only of beautiful claws? Papa, who made arks of baling wire and balsa and tied up the Yiddish books...

...Marisa Crawford © 2015 Marisa Crawford 2015 Marisa Crawford Lady Gaga Looks like Aunt Linda Two teen girls on the corner in matching violet puffers. Two white lions arched inside the bags underneath my eyes. Aunt Linda was all, life sucks let’s go shopping. You can make...

... mother wa ed between it being Robert Redford, Bjorn Borg, and some public masturbator now in a Kentucky nuthouse I ended up living out near the county line with my Aunt Kat and her chest freezer full of dead dogs. ose ice-covered animals were part of my aunt s livelihood. She taught pre-vet classes...

.... We’ve dropped off my aunt to shop for nylons and are traveling at a speed that would horrify my parents. He’s teasing me, bets me 50 cents he knows the color of my underpants. “They’re shocking pink,” he shouts into the wind. I...

.... Later that night, my father calls my aunt and uncle and tells them about the event, and the twins are put on the phone, one after the other, and they cry and apologize after being told that their behavior is making their parents very frustrated, and that this crap is making it difficult to enjoy...

... or begin something quickly. His aunt, by contrast, stood at the head of the stairs, in a place that was half sunlit and half shadowy, with immaculate serenity, seemingly not having moved from where she had said goodbye to him about a year ago (Chaudhuri 1991: 1). This is a good analogy to begin talking...

... unsuited they are for each other he in his Bermudas and she in her negligee at Aunt Bee s funeral. Then it should all become funny, but you learn in your first-year Brit Lit class that a ha-ha is a ditch that keeps cows from wandering while the dumb ones fall in and they can t get out. minnesota review 94...

.... He felt lucky for the rest of his life. My aunts called those hurricanes, then named after women, history, Which made them laugh and delight in their purchase of bales of black seamed silk stockings, recovered from the flood...

... of her headstone? an aunt said, her face pinched belligerently watching as the babies crayon the afternoon. The phone rings with something important to say. A fire started, feeding on leftover-Fall. Grandpa in the basement Germany mapped out in the brown-shag...

... in medical parlance. He is diagnosed with a common disease and hooked to clear tubes pumping salt. A handsome doctor says, You are too sweet. Your blood and pee. Your sweetness is a poison. The boy nods. This coheres. His sweetness introduces him to families of pain headache uncles, panic aunts and he...

...Ephraim Scott Sommers © 2016 Ephraim Scott Sommers 2016 Ephraim Scott Sommers Dear Trevor from Fort Lauderdale The one who kicked the baby out of Aunt Traci’s stomach and the one who hung his wife from the hotel balcony             and the one who lugged Louise around her apartment...

...Whittney Jones Whittney Jones There Are Bright Signs in the Crystal Ball— I’d Say Yes Dear Aunt Debra, my intuition tells me a man wrote those fortunes you read. Did you ever notice that every ticket said yes? Sleep with him, wear that dress, red lipstick...

... ago, her mother, my marvelous and wonderful Aunt Laura, decided to read my 1988 autobiography The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction in the East Village. Fifty pages into it, she phoned my equally wonderful Aunt Bessie, to declare, "Bessie—do you know what that boy is writing...

... individual language, turn idiolect to dialect. I lay with you underneath mosquito netting and forgot a time when movies minnesota review 98 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9563695 © 2022 Teresa Pham-Carsillo 24 Pham-Carsillo 25 were anything but phim, when I called an older woman aunt instead of ma am. You took...

...Christian Nagle © 2013 Christian Nagle 2013 Christian Nagle Spook Casal Palocco, 1972 In the villa on Via del Canale della Lingua, a third woman —​Aunt Lucy, this time —​ confided to you the story of cold hands at night, a pressure at her throat —​not lethal...

..., on the table by the front door where we piled our mail, the coffee table, the toilet tank: the picture, face down. At first she just left them lying around, like magazine subscription cards, or the magazines themselves. Her aunt had sent her a Polaroid camera and two dozen boxes of film; I'd be staring out...

..., mother-of-all chingasos 1992 style. Today’s my tío’s seventy- fifth, and all his brothers, the old ones Tolú and Chente and the really old ones Mundito and Curly (and their wives-my-aunts, kids, grandkids), as well as half of Maravilla, are throwing him a barbeque today down at Marrano Beach...

... the chance to bail on it. (Spoiler alert if you haven’t already read it.) The novella is basically about this fussy, pretentious, über-sensitive guy named Gabriel who is going to his old aunts’ annual Christmas party in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife Gretta. Classic or not, most of the novella...

... and found bins. The hollow husks in thrift stores didn't do it for me. I had exhumed the libraries and excavated the parks. I was getting lazy. Careless. I got caught calling the same place twice on the same day. I soon cursed my hometown for being so small. I missed Aunt Tracie's wedding because I went...

... party, he nodded at her and kept drinking, and he drank until he swayed, until her aunts and uncles stared, until her mum, embarrassed and hurt, asked him, Do you even remember your own name? and he smiled and nodded, just as he d smiled and nodded at the girl. She tries to not imagine too much...