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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 54–56.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... I’m not going to fucking do this every week. My mother stayed still, looking out her window while the wind picked up her hair and made it dance. I know you can hear me, he said. This is, what, the tenth time? For Christ’s sake. She was breath- ing slowly, and I knew her eyes were closed. But I...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 34–35.
Published: 01 November 2006
...- hide. Eighteen, the two of you smashed again, the quarrel this time About the relative ineptness of two local boxers: Dad in his stiff plaid shirt, collar unraveling, wet looseness to his eyes, A hard drunk's steel. But you would not burn again. You knew the key, the cabinet...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2009
...?” “Nothing. Just missed you.” It was a nice idea, this missing me, but I knew better. “Claire. What is it?” She took a deep sigh and the connection between us crackled. “It’s Sidney.” “What about her?” “She has a tumor. They want to take her leg.” I could turn most anything...
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the minnesota review (2010) 2010 (75): 13–19.
Published: 01 November 2010
... know?” He tugged on his apron with an exaggerated grimace. Of course, Effie and I both knew his schedule by heart. Then he smiled at me. “But hey—Jennie’s been dying to go. She was just talking about it.” Jennie Lee was two years...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 4–6.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to see in you. And then, out of nowhere, you did it. You showed me there was more to you than I d ever seen before. I knew Angela s handwriting pretty well because, as I said earlier, our dads went way back and we saw each other when they did, and so on weeknight get-togethers we did our homework...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 27–35.
Published: 01 May 2017
... it, he was bend- ing over, shimmying an arrowhead loose from some old muck and leaves, when the Indians pushed him over. He heard in the wind the crying of a thousand horses just before he felt the shove of a red hand. The next thing he knew he was eating dirt and his leg was pointing the wrong...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 13–21.
Published: 01 May 2020
... we were both sixth graders at Bethlehem Middle School. Earlier that year, my mother went to prison for embezzling $50,000 from First Baptist, and I was still embarrassed and more than a little bitter over that whole situation. Because no one knew exactly who my father was my mother wa ed between...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (83): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the crack of a finch’s bone. The doe stamped a foot. Moments ticked by. She performed an elaborate dance, dropping her head and bobbing it up, then back down again and on and on, ears switching, goading him to move. She was an old doe, barren now, and knew threat by its first name. If the flag...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 6–11.
Published: 01 November 2015
... away. After Camilo stopped resisting, Jacinto set him on his feet and returned him his knife, but he knew better than to let Camilo retreat deeper into the woods and feed his murderous anger by plotting Jacinto’s end —​no doubt remembering how, less than a month before in Brunete, we had...
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the minnesota review (2019) 2019 (93): 18–22.
Published: 01 November 2019
... or repercussion. Strange that my daugh- ter could no longer dredge words from her throat, could no longer find them in her mind. Just gone. But we knew: sometimes this aban- donment of words occurred slowly, sometimes not. I had known this would happen for some time it was only a matter of when. I knew...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 9–22.
Published: 01 May 2008
... families, invite your friends, share your glory with them,” he said, but me and the other sergeants of Operation Skunk knew why we couldn’t watch together. Pastor and Tom Hoyt would be elsewhere, putting the next phase into action. Shelley’s test kernels popped, meaning the oil was hot enough...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (98): 2–5.
Published: 01 May 2022
... times about how the candidate he was running against wanted to abort my daughter even though she had been born three years ago and could walk and speak and form independent thoughts. The President posted six more warnings about this threat and several others. I didn t take him seriously. Nobody we knew...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 9–13.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., to sweets like konafa and loqmet el qady. She knew Saadeya never ate any meat, so Sety Labiba set aside some rice so she could have something to eat. Saadeya had a weird thing about animals, but she had a heart of gold, so Sety Labiba allowed her son to marry her. But it was known, a pregnant woman has...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 20–23.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the ocean. you shaved your beard in the parking lot, told me, boys are not for living in. x. capricorn glacial eyes make sense as winter. i knew you so long, i forgot me. i ruined your clothes with blood, and you carried extra...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 41–49.
Published: 01 November 2022
... was always sore. He was larger than average, but I never came. Certain positions were painful to do. Marie, one of my old boarding school friends, said that men felt bigger when they knew they d made you hurt like that. She told me this because I d asked if my not having an orgasm meant that I might...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 53–59.
Published: 01 May 2008
...?” “Because, stupid, I want you to come with me,” Lawrence said smiling. Mitchell 55 He was smiling because he knew I hated church. Church reminded me of funerals. Anytime I walked past a church I thought about my great...
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the minnesota review (2010) 2010 (75): 28–29.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Arisa White © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Arisa White It was easier to manage I started kindergarten that fall you went off to Guyana. Granny cut off my dreadlocks. She knew how to press and curl, ponytail and cornrow but palm roll locks till the roots stiffen with beeswax...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 36–40.
Published: 01 November 2023
... this tree, suck the lemons and all the sweetly tart juices dry. They had a lready set up camp beneath the leaves. That s how they start out. At first, just lots of walking, marching, but I knew better. When I wasn t watching, they were burrowing into the yellow rinds, lapping up the tangy liquid. Even...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 8–11.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Michael W. Cox [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Michael W. Cox 2024 Sue finished her cigarette and flicked the tiny bit left into the yard. Then she sat on the back steps and lit up a second. James wouldn't let her smoke inside, a good call, she knew—not with two boys to raise, one...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (96): 18–19.
Published: 01 May 2021
... brother who knew him as a second father, who knew him as flesh, bone, & beer belly; or those flaccid hands that grew weak from opening & closing around the coarse husks of jute, that could mend the midsoles of worn shoes, that were ashen from playing in wooden powder used to lime & care for crops of maize...