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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 48–52.
Published: 01 May 2012
... forearms and a nose that burned red when he was into his whiskey. Leaning forward, he jabbed the butt of a rifle at Hilton’s shoulder. “You too, pee wee. We got business.” Eliot’s chest tightened in the cold. “What time is it?” he asked. The moon was high and bright through the black square...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 20–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... The dress strap slips off her shoulder. She pushes it back up. Her face is covered in freckles like her bare shoulders. She tosses her head back and forth. She wishes she felt as light as her newly cut hair rather than like she’s looking through a smeary storm door. Last night after the fair, after...
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the minnesota review (2021) 2021 (96): 11.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Hannah Bishop © 2021 Hannah Bishop 2021 Hannah Bishop Plumb Line my lungs hang from my clavicle so a hand on my shoulder tips them like a scale \ i don t need comfort i need to imagine your mouth as a tetromino now rearrange the squares to make it my favorite one the little pink T \ i have...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 32–42.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the driving, Dad,” I said. I used the deepest voice I could muster. He glanced over his shoulder at me. minnesota review 89 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-4175941  © 2017 Sean Towey 32 Towey  33 “Alright, Son,” he said. His lack of fight boded...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 53.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Heather Quinn © 2016 Heather Quinn 2016 Heather Quinn Kaddish for Grandma Irene In my dream, her bony body is naked underneath a dress of translu- cent leaves. The knobs of her knees are burls of a willow tree. I place the paper cutout of a blackbird on her left shoulder. In an open...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (77): 48.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to see if I’ll wade across our river. I lick the black corners of your ears; one agent shoots my shoulder. I wonder if you could take them down while you’re on top of me, put them in a box somewhere. I tell you I am desert, my face cracks, reptiles hide in my shadows, my hair grows because...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 18–19.
Published: 01 November 2013
...— Gust of wind pushing the car to the shoulder. Traffic report. Weather report. War report. Inaudible pop song. Little white crosses on the shoulder. Blue guitar rift. High hat. hey, hey, hey—  The cigarette’s cherry bouncing, signaling in the rearview mirror. No one...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 11–18.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., eyebrows raised in expectation. The two younger boys happily banged away as loud as they could, swinging their dangling feet to the rhythm they created. Her two older boys would give her pained, overwrought brow furrows and sigh, slipping their hands from the keys and slumping their shoulders until she let...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (98): 13–16.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and terrified the neighbors. The whole town despised my toddling, scowled at Mother and Father, shunned us. So, I thumped louder, rattling root cellars on up to their roof shingles. And yet, faithfully served community. I extinguished 7 house­ fires by spitting. In summers, my shoulders eclipsed the sun...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (79): 9–17.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., slimming a bit through her middle before expanding again into the muscled bulk of her shoulders. She jumped and swung and caught the apple on her first claw —​her index claw —​and, with a snarl, tore it from the branch. minnesota review 79 (2012) DOI 10.1215/00265667-1708358  © 2012 Maxim...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 24–37.
Published: 01 May 2012
... at the screen door. His Batman blanket is wrapped over his shoulders like a cape, and he’s sucking his thumb, gazing passively out into the rocky yard, as though he were imagining a real lawn. He’s a quiet child with an affection that lives in shifting depths, occasionally surfacing. Once, I watched...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 37–48.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., going out to jazz clubs in neighborhoods where the signs were written more often in Arabic than in French, places so far away from tourist attractions that she wondered if they were in Paris at all. She had the minnesota review clung to Eric's side, often drifting off to sleep on his shoulder...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 49–59.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., with his ex-wife and their baby. Vincent s arms wrap around her shoulders so that his hands cover hers. With his chin tucked to her shoulder, they are looking down at the child whose pinched red face stares right at the camera. In dreams, Paige comes to me holding our baby. Moments after waking, it s...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 37–45.
Published: 01 November 2013
... class, and he agreed to meet with her after school. He told me he’d laid his hand on her shoulder. My mother had been dead for less than nine months. My father understood about sorrow. He never told me what she’d burst into tears about. I even asked him after he was let go, but he always gave...
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the minnesota review (2011) 2011 (76): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the feeling that he was the only person on the island. He had to park on the gravel shoulder in front of his house because a large piece of plywood lay across the driveway. That was a bad sign. The panel was the size of his patio door, which is what it should have still been covering. A couple...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (95): 47–52.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the shop windows cloudy with condensation. I stepped inside to come out of the cold, and it was like stepping into a greenhouse. My glasses fogged, the snow melted into the shoulders of my coat, into my hair, and dripped down the back of my neck. minnesota review 95 (2020) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8623672 ©...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2010 (73-74): 15–17.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., issued forth from an office doorway and rose up behind the Asian kid. With a paw-like hand he grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around with no more effort than it would take to flip a coin. The CO bent his huge frame and with less than six inches separating his...
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the minnesota review (2015) 2015 (85): 47–53.
Published: 01 November 2015
...? Enok is at my shoulder. His lead is tight. He is stronger than me. He is younger than me. I won’t pretend that I don’t know this. I don’t belong where I am. Not anymore. You are frightening the others. His voice rumbles. You must main- tain your grip on the world. I say nothing. You...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 15–24.
Published: 01 May 2009
... noticed that he moved like an ex-football player, stiff in the shoulders, lumbering, but with a healthy dose of confidence in what his body could still do. Nikki had forgotten all about Georgia and her toes, which ached like she’d just visited a foot binder, until she felt...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (100): 34–44.
Published: 01 May 2023
... with the rabbi already. His back faced me. The hanger that had worn his maroon western-motif button-down shirt before he had had punched wing nubs at the shoulder blades. Someone should tell him. I insist, call me David. If this isn t a good time for the interview, I can come back. A tumbleweed flung...