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...Margret Grebowicz This article takes its cue from Timothy Morton’s invitation to think all things in terms of radioactivity. Instead of focusing on objects, however, the author explores radiation in the imagination of animal desire in the nuclear dystopia. Her working hypothesis...

...Jon Pineda © 2013 Jon Pineda 2013 Jon Pineda Ritual Some mornings I pretend to sleep, our room cool as a tomb, before the radiator has jeweled the air to weigh us further into the next life, & that is usually when she arrives, stuffed animals...

... that radiates darkness. We could pretend it wasn t real, or I could; who else would need to? But it s beyond that now. I see it taking off through the crowded room of a New Year s gala, dipping its bruise bill deep into various champagne flutes, guests pointing to the Tiffany-style table lamp, where it flits...

... annihilation; another crater in the earth like the one you found me in, digging my own grave / with my teeth, crooked from encountering diamantine sediment, still-warm bones of those who look just like me, rocks, razors, radiation In my veins, there s a sweet virus that resembles us assuaged by pills perfected...

... of luminescent nerves, lantern made of mist and adhesive light, transmission on the tongue like a wasp nest gently proffered to fire and flight. Tremors radiate toward the center and back out. First, the colors must be rescued, first the stories and before that we must be saved by stories...

... in the wind like bells ringing out their bright colors lilac, cerulean, apple green with no black aprons to subdue them. Children jumped on a big trampoline by a barn, their joy in movement repeated in the undulating pastures beyond them. Everything radiated an easy, undeniable vibrancy. We could glimpse...

... and moved it off his forehead. Then he leaned forward and wrapped the chain around Sherwood’s chest. “Spunky little runt,” Sherwood said. “Always have been.” Hilton finished. He stood next to Eliot, who hadn’t moved at all. Sherwood pulled the rifle to his chest. Absurdity radiated from...

... on the couch and cries and asks questions about his pancreas, and my father says things but always includes the mention of the appointment with the radiation therapist on Monday. The appointment with the therapist on Monday involves a CT scan, an MRI, more blood work, and a follow-up for a session...

... littered with starlings. They thought it was the toxins in yew berries, the contamination of natural waters, possibly the radio frequency radiation from the newly installed tower. There s always something a little shocking when one sees a clump of dirt or a cast-off sock and finds that it s really a tiny...

... ones. In my attic apartment the radiators hissed and rattled and star- tled me awake. My downstairs neighbors fought, and only the tone of their voices carried through the carpeted floor. I turned up the volume of my reality TV shows, listening to television couples shouting instead. As the weather...

... all have a drink and chat,” he said finally. And with that every- one began to mingle. Thom immediately made a beeline for Ellen, cutting off several other writers in the process. “I find you to be very interesting,” he said. “You sell so many books. And you radiate such warmth. You...

... the mountains. The countryside villages looked like little boxes, their bamboo Ramakrishnan 13 rooves shining under the sun. Then I saw the temple. It stood there in the distance, a quiet building that seemed to radiate heat. At that moment, any regrets I had about quitting burned away. In the way that home...

...” was comparative, and it cannot be understood except by asking: Better than where? The Depression originated in the United States, but it was a global phenomenon that radiated outward chronologically and geographically. A much more ambitious study than the ones that Dickstein, Conn, and Welky...

.... Global warming is, simply, an effect of this alteration in the atmo- spheric concentrations of those trace gases that absorb solar radiation: carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Air turns out to be the matter of history, the substance the properties of which, however...

... of a burning building. The radiator clangs and lets out a small burst of steam. I’m done. “Already?” Ivan asks with surprise, and maybe even a little relief. I’m reminded that we’re performing two separate tasks. It isn’t like we’re cooking a meal or painting a room where we get to share...

... by a nanosecond's worth of settling into a beach cottage, time still found time to march in. "Oh, hi, Jen." She was a vision of white Coppertone radiating from a torso of Day- Glo orange Michelin tires. "Uh, uh, hello." 68 the minnesota review "Gosh," said Anastasia, "I...

... as female. “The cat is smarter than you,” she says when I tell her Lorna is missing. “She knew to get the fuck out of Kansas.” I crouch down and turn the knob on the radiator to “open,” but I know the heat isn’t working. Every day my landlord says he’s coming, and then he does not come...

... in aesthetics, like Vicuña’s, which is also a material- ity that directly confronts what is not-yet through the rearrangement of what the artist finds and collects from what is, is always engaged in tracing the social lines radiating from form(s). The true radicality in reading such experimentalism...

... know any of that and so had the luxury of fantasizing the two of us, the lone survivors in the vast wasteland of western Pennsylvania, foraging in dead people’s refrigerators and joyriding for decades to come. We were somehow immune to radiation...

....” Marion never said such a thing, but over the last few years, Sull had felt the silent accusation radiating like heat from her skin. His sons hadn’t considered their birthright —​this hard land —​ worth having. They scattered into the world. The failure must be his. He saw the muscles of her...