...Natasha Sajé © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Natasha Sajé Happy and Sad come different ways through the brain —​ in one a feather is lofted on warm currents. In the other, lead talons drag you around a volcano’s rim. One’s a beach resort with...

...Chelle Miko © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 25 Chelle Miko Happy Hour at the After School Program Outside my office door, the kid paces like a man, frets and stalks the big hand to...

...Lisa Fluet Fluet’s essay develops a survey of the argumentative claims of the area of affect studies devoted specifically to the assessment, and critique, of “happiness.” The central focus is a review of Sara Ahmed’s study The Promise of Happiness (2010), which Fluet places within the context of...

...Melinda Wilson © 2014 Melinda Wilson 2014 Melinda Wilson Happiness Equation My sister calls, says she can’t begin to be buoyant when she burned the last bit of pea soup, when each gray face that she meets will die, and possibly tomorrow after she...

...Faisal Mohyuddin Faisal Mohyuddin The Salvation ofAurella Aurita I check them every day to make sure they’re happy and in good shape.  —​Dorothy B. Spangenberg, PhD Jellyfish born in...

.... They hand us five hundred dollar bills. minnesota review 79 (2012) DOI 10.1215/00265667-1708457  © 2012 Dzvinia Orlowsky 49 50 the minnesota review It’s our job to add the mild look of envy to their happy decision. A...

... outside, see cloud that looks like anvil going to drop on neighbors? I have recipe for happiness, and it is this: forget blueprints, rubber masks, bombs like great, black cherries. Forget even Fearless Leader and his dusty monocle. Let us go, let us take walk and I will...

.... My kingdom for a muzzle. My kingdom for a David star. My kingdom for an egg. My kingdom for two Ruths, one for past & one for future. My kingdom for the cat. Happiness lasts no more than 26 days in a row. Then take a break. Can’t call it quitting if I always mean to...

... wounded while birds pissed the fence. I gaslit my lantern. Myth-sparked I happied myself with the story of evers & afters & forwards, slipperfooted, blinded by the glint off glass I refused every glimpse factly showing me that my own hand authored & armed this dream of light. minnesota review...

... 86 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3457471  © 2016 Jasmine V. Bailey 3 4 the minnesota review You are making a happy little pervert of him, and it is good. Too many years you spent as a miserable pervert and no one ever did...

...James Magorian © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 ames Magorian New Harmony, Indiana We must design the destruction of ignorance and misery, and establish the reign of reason, intelligence and happiness. —Robert Owen, 1817...

... there is a shape of people, people who are inside a house, sleeping, and even eating, and mainly shopping for stuff on the internet. People who forgot to be noticed doing anything special. They’re just happy to be the figures in a Diorama display. Like players in some movie, but not really...

... nothing but make us happy? Was that a chowder or a stew? What’s the difference between a chowder and a stew? [breathes heavily] This one time, we had a burger on Texas toast topped with a fried egg, a slice of ham, and white cheddar. If you look at it, it’s like we took a burger and...

... from a distant neon sign, so I had everything I could want: youth and time and the sea In my third-floor room I was happy with the typewriter I returned to each day after clocking out with friends scattered throughout this building as well as people I scarcely knew: the couple through the...

... atop the hill to see the view he craves is best when glimpsed —​a happy accident —​ instead of present, on display, and so there must be leaves and branches to see through. Frost’s protean voice murmurs in my ear: “He moves in darkness as it seems to me.” But all he knows...

... people are happy with his version of the past, how he fes- toons the synapse hallway with plastic barrel monkeys and other childhood fictions. How much remembering is simply the snake swal- lowing itself.) II. If you want to see Nadine give up religion for comic books turn to page 93. III...

... dance oor at Oktoberfest a ladybug on my elbow the low clap of hand drums and Vanessa in her oversized sunglasses the color of honey and today I am happy enough on dark ale and summer to tell the oak leaves how my whole body like a tall tongue has become an extension of my mouth because while skanking...

.... xii. pisces you liked a mystery girl, and i was happy to oblige. flitting around with thin legs and banded arms, you saw a scar and thought you knew me. think of me when you want to cut —​no. you didn’t earn that. ...

...Peter Mehmel © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Peter Mehmel A Hidden Cost The eve of my son’s fifth birthday seemed especially cruel. I’m sure he woke up excited and happy to celebrate his special day, only to find that his father was gone. I can’t imagine how my wife...

... Plaice Neville Plaice Stephen Knight Paul . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Cavell Stanley . 1981 . Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Fitting Peter . 1993 . “What Is Utopian Film? An Introductory...