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... imagine, when he s back at home, he s a pretty good dad and a pretty good husband, based on how he kisses his daughter s head at the elementary school and talks to his wife on the phone. I m not sure why I enjoy studying my teachers, but I do. It might be because they re adults, and adults seem to think...

... trying to name the prettiest aunt because it’s prettiness that counts when it comes to aunts, and to sunsets, to women poets, and feminist selfies, the golden lioness. Sisterhood is really something. Cousinhood is really something. Rooms full of women poets on the Internet in the glass...

... the store, and we have to tell her dad that right away, so he knows we didn’t spend any of his money. He’s already pretty sore about me staying with them while my dad is out driving his truck. He glares at me during dinner, and all I can do is stare at his big brown mus- tache and think about how...

... the wash is done everyone’s asking you to lift your dress they want to know which secret is the realest one & what getting away costs they call you a threat to every woman but women can’t decide who gets to be a woman who gets to breathe like a bird in the ear somebody’s dearest wish pretty...

... of an odd, spherical object with whisker antennae and the word “Sputnik” flashed across it. A month later, they (and “they” were pretty bad folks) sent a dog, Laika, into orbit, without even a thought that they might actually try to bring the creature safely back to earth. I was astounded. I...

...—the kind that you and I are now using—without training, without teaching, just by exposure, very rapidly, very uniformly. Everyone does it pretty much the same way, so it behaves very much like other biological capacities. However, it happens to be unique to humans. It probably has...

... behind her daddy’s right side. I figured she was nervous with my folks talking about her. She was biting down and tugging on her marmalade sleeve. She had a pretty face —​the kind of pretty that made it easy to get lost just looking: her blue-green eyes were like shimmering seashells; her cheeks...

.... Did someone break in, do you think? asked Michelle. Just to leave a hat? Maybe it s a message of some kind? We should see if anything s been stolen. We decided that I would look in the living room and kitchen and Michelle would check the bedroom and bathroom. I m a pretty lousy looker I don t...

... individual and involves only the knife and a five-gallon plas- tic bucket) every time he sends a batch off to market. Now, pretty much everyone around Lincoln or Clay or Buffalo County or wherever has gone and contracted the whole business out to Tyson or Perdue or one of the other Big Ag producers because...

... councilor even when he was in his eighties. So, he was pretty committed. He came from South Wales, so he had that kind of Left background that’s pretty unique in that country. So I guess that influ- enced me in some ways. Watson  Many activists do not engage in academic argument, but you do...

... on the third floor. I keep the windows closed by the evening. It's a pretty good seal. I can't hear someone calling up to me. That must be forty or fifty feet.” “Your light was the only one on. Everyone else had gone home.” “It's Friday. I'm the only one who stays late.” “The janitor was there. I...

... not hiring the “way overqualified” Tad, he revised the lore of how they met. He said he almost missed meeting Nikki because he was groping around the beer-soaked floor with a pretty brunette, helping her find a contact lens. Minor, really, but he’d never used the verb...

... to her strong arm —​the arm she balanced the diner trays on. Around her bicep was tattooed a rippling banner with Helen in the middle, a heart on either side. Her mother looked at the tattoo, then at her. What do you think? Pretty good, huh? Are you serious? she said to her mother...

... blackly in the folds of knuckles. “Want me to fetch it?” Though he knew crows would be play- ing rowdy by now. She shaded her face, her pretty gray eyes. “No, no. It’s alright.” “I want to,” he said, coloring. He was angry at himself and angry at her. “I’ll run up.” “Too late...

... is filled with lightbulbs. I’ve had pain in my tongue. I’ve stitched a pretty dress made of licorice. I’ve walked through the garden of misery. The trees spoke Spanish and their bark tasted like aspirin. I met a sensational horse named Jalapeño...

...Marcela Sulak © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Marcela Sulak Ecclesiastes Katamon, Jerusalem It’s so nice to be pretty and wearing polka dots on a swinging dress with a small cinched waist pushing a blue-eyed golden child through the trade winds in her pram...

... slowly it slides into my view too. Was there a forest encircling it? Yes, and those foxes and their tracks we followed out from town, us carrying those awful pistols, and what a racket in the trees when the hounds flushed the pretty red one. Honey, I want you to have the stole we made from him...

... for a second while I think about that guy who went through hell et al. to retrieve his lover. OK. That’s another thing about being human: looking behind —​ but up until then he was doing pretty great. I did not ask you to leave. I am not asking you to come back...

...Claire Christoff © 2020 Claire Christoff 2020 Claire Christoff Fruit in August It s a sunny day: stupid, pretty. I put a peach and a nectarine in my bag, pretending not to see a deep gash in the former that will leak its rosy syrup like the worst flirt, draw every fat baby bumblebee. You...

...Cindy King [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Cindy King 2022 Cindy King The Governor Asks Us to Pray for Rain The wind borrows its walk from a drunk, hot, wobbling. A car sets sail on a retention pond and actually goes pretty far. Stupid sunset. Stupid, spectacular sunrise. Succulents...