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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 53.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Heather Quinn © 2016 Heather Quinn 2016 Heather Quinn Kaddish for Grandma Irene In my dream, her bony body is naked underneath a dress of translu- cent leaves. The knobs of her knees are burls of a willow tree. I place the paper cutout of a blackbird on her left shoulder. In an open...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 9–11.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Tyler McMahon © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Tyler McMahon The King of All One-Liners It was a Tuesday when I came home from school and found Grandma lying on the living room floor with a black eye. Dad was working tens, and wouldn’t be back for hours. A half-empty bottle of Gallo...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 40–49.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the dress and even Grandma didn’t want her to since it was the dress she got married in herself. Oriel convinced Grandma to get Cleo to wear it since she was getting married to Jesus; it was Oriel who said to Grandma that Cleo was old enough to be baptized even if it was a year before she...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 29.
Published: 01 November 2017
...James Dunlap James Dunlap and the blade whistles dark in the field and grandpa still hacks with a slingblade he hit grandma again and the sky has gone over to a rash of stars nibs of bone burning in a black rag and the blade whistles every night my stomach sputters like a wet match...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 8–9.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that bricked a house on her lips.    Soil. Horizon. Root. Grandma, what about the fire you shouldered from your village? What about       a breath?         Pick up the red tulips beside you —​         pluck them into the earth, again.      Take my hand.       Thumb my lips.          Teach me how...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (83): 18–19.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is decaying, the universe is decaying. Soon there will be nothing left. Back then I wasn’t even born, but as soon as I was, I set right to decaying. Only death can be beauty. I remember grandma cradling a tiny crucifix in her cupped hands repeating softly ain’t he just beautiful...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 27–28.
Published: 01 November 2006
... the furniture, but didn’t make it: running back to the blaze where he fainted, an old asthmatic hefting his recliner the way a young girl, high on adrenaline, can lift the wrecked car from her mother’s leg. So in the last untaken photo, Grandma stands outside, one hand on the salvaged TV, the way...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 26–27.
Published: 01 November 2006
... lift the wrecked car from her mother’s leg. So in the last untaken photo, Grandma stands outside, one hand on the salvaged TV, the way she might have stood with my mother an imagined lifetime ago, the good wife waiting for the last train home from the war. Elevator Man The name...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 10–11.
Published: 01 November 2016
... fit her, and we’ll probably move a few times before then, and I’m not dragging his grudge gift across the country wait- ing for the day I can make her wear it in public. I junk it instead. His mom, her grandma, sends some normal clothes —​nothing expensive, a little much in the frills...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 57–58.
Published: 01 May 2013
... meet her on the balcony off mother’s painting studio, daylight still visible through the pines. More than whatever I saw, I remember my distress, how I ran to find mother in the kitchen and said, “Mom, Grandma’s upstairs and she won’t speak to me.” After two years we’d...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 151–155.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Copyright © 2023 Virginia Tech 2023 Contributors Creative Mara Beneway is a writer, visual artist, and teacher from New York. Her p oems h ave a ppeared or a re f orthcoming i n t he B ennington Review, Conduit, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Her collection of linked flash fiction, Grandma June...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 36–40.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., maybe months. It s enough ants to fill up the backyard thrice over. Maybe it s not Gide- Gonzales 39 on s fault. Humans, we re bad at this, at imagining things at such scale. It doesn t matter what it is, time, aphids, ants, your grandma s sunhat collection, anything that much and our brains can t...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (84): 30–43.
Published: 01 May 2015
... knock this poor girl up? It’s nice to meet you by the way, sweetheart,” she says, turning to Mira. “Would you like something to drink?” “No, thank you.” “I figured you’d want to know you’re going to be a grandma,” you say. “I don’t mean to be rude, dear, I truly don’t, you look...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 80–99.
Published: 01 May 2023
... on money, time; death Our parents, I don t have a grandpa, I don t have a grandma Only parents I cry, I laugh, In play, I sleep, Attack What I do alone I sleep not, I got sick admitted As a psychiatric patient But what I do, I write poems, I can t live without poems. I close the rickety booklet, held...