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...Stan Beyer © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Shopping for a Watch For Fred Pfeil (12/5/05) I've been shopping for a watch For months. My last one had A small blue light So I could anchor myself And chart my course Through those nights When sleep hides elsewhere...

...Jessica Rae Bergamino © 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino 2014 Jessica Rae Bergamino Sex Dream with People Watching Here is the net. Here is the knife you’ll use to cut yourself from it. Here is the temptation to stay. Here: a shell the color of your modesty: a fan...

...Fikret Pajalic © 2015 Fikret Pajalic 2015 Fikret Pajalic Mahala Today is the first Sunday of the month, and for my dad and me it’s movie day. Ever since the war finished, we watch an old videotape once a month after breakfast. We found it in the rubble of the top story of our house...

...Francine Witte © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Francine Witte Why Kiley Roberts Left Me for Dead Maybe the moon knows why. Moon sits all night in the sky and watches and watches and sees everything. I know the moon saw the last of Kiley Roberts as he edged himself into the pickup round...

... food store, watching reruns of Gilligan s Island together after the inevitable breakup with the latest boyfriend. But instead I felt lost. What about the house? I asked. My room? You didn t find my porn, did you? She laughed and kissed my forehead. Everything is waiting for you in the spare...

... 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...

... minnesota review 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9992732 © 2022 Jean Theron 1 2 the minnesota review vulval tapestry, liquid polymer s poison spinnerets. There s an outfit for every conquest turning inward: Eyes no longer ours watching celebrities pose like bad album art. Watching them watching us watching...

...Michael Giddings [email protected] © 2022 Michael Giddings 2022 Michael Giddings Here Comes Mister Fingers Our daughter was on the floor in front of the couch, tablet propped on her knees. What is she watching? I asked my wife. Eerily cheerful music emanated from the other room...

...Trista Foster 2005 the minnesota review 2005 37 Trista Foster Feathers and Hair Abuse is watching the Pilgrim's Pride chickens bundled together in their box-wire crates...

... hugged Shelley and felt a wave of warmth. “Isn’t it just wild?” she asked, heading for the kitchen ahead of me. “I feel like movie stars must feel. All week long I’ve been calling people, reminding them to watch it.” “Luckily I don’t have to worry about anything...

...Sara Henning © 2016 Sara Henning 2016 Sara Henning The Cells That Bind Us When our calico Manx tests the limits of her world from the basket laced with towels, my mother says she’s queening. I watch her lick her vulva in the laundry room near the water heater, amniotic sac enclos...

... holding up the roof of the barn, put a halter around the ewe's fat neck, tied the rope to the halter, and heaved, heaved, heaved the other side of the rope, tying the rope down to another open post once the ewe was high enough off the ground. Then he just watched the ewe sputter. It kept trying to say...

...Maren Loveland [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Maren Loveland 2024 On an empty screen, we watch a crepuscular moonrise, gooseberries still damp with dew, the fluttering of a pigeon—or maybe, a heartbeat—in the belly, in the eardrum. Still-warm pillows, lipstick...

... eyes. Little sheep brain likes to watch me eat three hot dogs at the Galaxy Café but not the buns. We exit quickly past the incubator chicks who hatch-re-hatch their too-small tender wings. Usually is our favorite word. A day starts like this: open mouth aerobics...

...Michael R. Schrimper © 2017 Michael R. Schrimper 2017 Michael R. Schrimper The Sunken Ship “Here we are, in the waters off the coast of Hawaii, watching my uncle enter that sunken ship. It is a giant brown ship balancing precariously on a ledge. Behind me, my mother is seething...

.... The fields of rye on either side of us stretched on to eternity, painting the world biscotti. Our water bottle was almost empty. My head was feeling fuzzy. I watched as Roo moved from the gravel shoulder to the pavement, toward the yellow lines. She walked in bridal rhythm, her arms dangling like a dive bar...

..., and Jeff Simmons was on their roof nailing regular gray tiles that had swung loose back into place. I was at the computer in my office, watching through my window's filmy curtain. I saw Jen Simmons step into the front yard in pink spandex. Jen was always in workout gear. It was rumored she...

... the dark water near the rocky beach and watch two teenagers make out for a brief moment with their shirts off. “Kill the lights, perv!” the girl shouts out to me. This is my first association of breasts with death threats. My friends’ perceptions of my father are just as easy. An act...