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...Virginia Reeves [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Virginia Reeves 2024 We were on our way home from the dairy when the Keenan house caught fire. There'd been heat lightning overhead for at least half an hour, but no rain. When the lightning struck, the house went up quick...

...Byron Landry © 2016 Byron Landry 2016 Byron Landry Daddy Hid Fire You ever steal smokes from your daddy. The boy’s hair was sun- blond, brown at the roots. My daddy doesn’t smoke —​the brown- haired boy’s eyes were small in the light. He remembered the box of matches...

... with another instance when a governor pressured university leadership over a culture war issue, during the heated era of 1960s protests over racism and imperialism. In 1969 Charles E. Young, chancellor of UCLA, publicly opposed the California regents and Governor Ronald Reagan when they sought to fire a young...

... hair, he ignited the amazon, and from there he plucked california and australia, he took the hairs, leaving only the follicle. and i admit i cried when i saw the world was on fire. burning is a paralysis too familiar to my skin. at that time, mom asked me if i had talked to my brother since christmas...

..., at the beginning of the story, Ayanda wakes up in a “veld fire” of pain, and her husband makes her promise she will go to the doctor after her attempts to treat it with an over-the-counter medicine fail. The next scene, where she is at the doctor's office, is ushered in by the header “ Citro-Soda  — sodium...

... out of the earth. Beneath her loud, Cypriot screams,            she mutters quietly the grief of her life. The wind-broken hip reminds 1974, when they didn’t want the fire in their village, unless it burned through the hunger                     or the cold. When she left north, the village...

...Barrett Bowlin © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Barrett Bowlin But I Can Only Do It Once Before the fire blows out a corner of the house where Jack Marsh and his family live, before my father’s oxygen tank overheats and sends shrapnel into the neighbor’s yard, he opens his eyes...

... saw from the window, the tree, ablaze. I yelled for Gideon but didn t wait for an answer. The licking flames reached upward toward the early dawn sky. I grabbed the hose and sprayed. We prepare for these kinds of things in fire country. This wasn t really fire country ten years ago but it is now...

... of a field mouse, caught in the fence’s clasp, won’t fly to the brutal north that my mother watches over, waiting to disappear. Perhaps, they too fear the suck of a plane’s propellers. But my daughter is fire, not air. Not water. An element to be feared. I can drag...

...Anhvu Buchanan © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Anhvu Buchanan Twelve Ways to Look at a Pyromaniac I. there is a man in a room who stays in my head when I am awake and disappears when I sleep and when he says “psssst” I have to set a fire. II. the candle flickers as we wait...

...Lindsay Wilson © 2013 Lindsay Wilson 2013 Lindsay Wilson Black-Footed Country I proposed fire as another form of growth the morning we woke to find the field of sage and creosote replaced by wind-stoked smoke and burning bushes. My mother had recently passed...

...Peggy Smith Duke © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 17 Peggy Smith Duke Strike Four months on strike and the company brings out the A-team. Burly jocks in blue security uniforms fire up chain saws, cut...

... asked. “I’m not,” I said. “You look like you’ve lost weight.” “Really?” He grabbed the fat gathering around his waist and smiled. “Maybe I have.” He started a fire, and Chris, Delaney, and I kicked around a soccer ball. For dinner, Dad made BLTs. We sat down at the picnic table...

... into a raging conflagration, only in small scale. It took weeks for them to identify the source of purple streaks on my neck, variety of the burn on your tailbone. It wasn’t from fire. Everything still fit. The night janitor was the first to notice the bundle in my basket...

..., and here, in Frankfurt, Kentucky, the brand new concrete slammed against his shoes. It jarred his bones as he jigged and so he jigged quicker, past the Strong Man, the Diving Cat, the Fire Eater, until, finally, he opened his fat lips and shouted to the crowd, who tossed their popcorn in jubilation...

... my fingers blue, even as I held them to the fire. My toes blued next. Then my nose. I dropped my slacks to face the horror of my blue member. The bear-hide rug blued below my feet, the pine-log walls, the oak floor, the fireplace brick from red clay to blue blue blue. Outside, the snow unceasingly...

... he’s sent her, and I see one of his drawings —​ angel wings —​on the back. How is he allowed to design T-shirts now? Who did he charm? His fire station only sells children’s smalls, so the shirt is meant for a kindergartener. Our daughter has a couple years to go before it could possibly...

... brothers and their wives greet him with more lust than should be extended given their age. My cousins’ kid Felo gets the fire going and quickly the air turns mesquite, the smell of toasting onion, bell pepper and garlic immersing the afternoon. Discretely mixing their short powerhouse cocktails...

... history and prophecy, stories for a time yet to come.” Where does this leave us with the prophecy of the seventh fire? The time of harmony and cooperation has passed at the same time that it is still pending, and we have learned the deep lessons granted during the time of the eighth fire while we also...