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...Liz Marlow Copyright © 2020 Liz Marlow 2020 Liz Marlow The Halloween Spider for Clara While we paste pompoms onto construction paper with googly eyes swirling at a glittery green, gold, and blue web, I am reminded of our fragility: how many times have I felt the crunch of brown or black...

... songs that perch in ocotillos. The Blue Angels rip the runway, vibrating clay down bluffs where gnatcatchers hide their cactus wool. Helicopters practice drawing circles. Men cast in sewage for tilapia somehow living. The Alamo collects selenium in leftover Halloween bags and streaks into the desert...

... not supposed to eat minnesota review 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9993069 © 2022 S. Pierrot 50 Pierrot 51 as a queer man at Chick-fil-A, and you shouldn t, but I did a mustachioed twink saucily squirreling nuggets. People stare. [iii] Back home, acquaintances spill tea on the porch at a Halloween party I...

... and slip from legend. As a kid I stayed home watching Sleepy Hollow Halloweens till one year the DVD cracked, I cried all night. I cried about so much then: stale bread, facedown swimming, rose thorn in my thumb. I thought God only offered pleasure, had abandoned all the rest. But what s my point here? Can...

... her purple camo pajamas with pictures of dog tags all over them. I think anything military is an inappropriate gift for a toddler —​ especially one who took a swing at me the other day and needs, maybe, to be discouraged away from violence —​so I junk it. We married on Halloween. Also...

...- o-lantern last Halloween. Sadness would be difficult to prove in a tur- key vulture, but is it unreasonable to believe that being isolated from other members of her species makes her feel . . . something? Before she was shot, she probably had a mate. Turkey vultures are strong pair- bonders...

... a nd pulled back t he scalp, its perfect face crumpled like a cheap, rubber Halloween mask. All the while Our Father stood next to the bier in a ridiculous apron and gloves too big for him, Hardly kept up a smooth, unemotional narrative as he performed his tasks. Hardly removed its skull cap and shook...

... with Halloween costumes to the appeal of the carnivorous Alice Cooper, the seductive androgyny of Mick Jagger, and the sexual thrill of vampire movies. Fiedler’s straying from literature culminated in what was to be his final critical work, 1982’s What...

... whether his male lip marks would pass as female. I told Jen about my cross-gender experience. One Halloween Wendy and I went as a dentist-hygienist team: I was a female hygienist, Wendy a male dentist. I said, "I wore pantyhose and everything." Jen nodded: "Itchy aren't...