... . Hsu 169 Hsuan L. Hsu Who Wears the Mask? (on Neil Leach, Camouflage [Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2006]) Camouflage has become one of the most characteristic traits of postmodern life. Immigrants, minorities, and refugees are pressured to assimilate to new cultural contexts; both stealth...

...Timothy Kercher © 2011 Timothy Kercher 2011 Timothy Kercher The Birds and the Bees Shells have been found with holes, sparkly pigments indicating Neanderthals used to wear makeup. I don’t like my wife to wear any but makeup in this moment has serious...

..., and he says, ‘Son, what’s this?’ and his son says, ‘Well, Pop, it’s a fat zapper. You wear it like a belt for a few hours a day, and it’s supposed to melt away the pounds.’ So Sniff goes home and writes a fake letter from a lawyer and mails it to his son, saying the fat...

...Halley Furlong-Mitchell Halley Furlong-Mitchell the ascent of what human from slime last night was the last night I drink the worm hang yellow from the cloth wrung out wearing your tongue in pieces I have died three times this minute and met no one damp palms smoke dark like static someone says...

... boys are call it The Rez because all the streets wear the names of the dreamcatcher dead the way I wear my uncle’s bombardier jacket as if it holds the forlorn magic of a war in its stitching. Apache, Monoa, Seminole & the blocks droop their concrete tongues over...

... is laura she is forty-two. she wears her drunkenness for perfume and has asked if i have cigarettes twelve times. she sips light beer from a plastic cup and says she is going to leave her husband for a woman, asks if i have a boyfriend (no). she says it s a shame. asks if i like girls. she has two kids...

...Danny Caine © 2015 Danny Caine 2015 Danny Caine Bono Rings My Doorbell Because he’s wearing sunglasses I can’t tell if he can see me peering through the blinds. It is 98 and sunny in Lawrence, Kansas and Bono is wearing a leather jacket. One hand rings my...

...Hillary Kobernick © 2017 Hillary Kobernick 2017 Hillary Kobernick Little Boats for Flat Chest Dresses Mostly he didn’t even start wearing skirts until we broke up, again. His parents can’t entirely blame me because in Boston I showed him Judith Butler and he said...

... for sheep brain who already starts to get a weariness about her. When little sheep brain wants to dream I shake her jar up vigorously. When nighttime comes a pooling of the face at corners. My little sheep brain wears minnesota review 76 (2011) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1221939  ©...

.... They don’t even figure out why. Maybe somebody told them to. Maybe they saw someone do it. So they just do it too, in the darkness. That’s people all summed up. Except for me. I wear the same size pants I wore when I was sixteen. I’m not skinny just squared away, I told you. Strong. I could say I...

... . New York : Arcade . ———. 2008 . Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out . Translated by Goldblatt Howard . New York : Arcade . ———. 2009 . Frog ( Chinese edition ). Shanghai : Shanghai Wenyi . ———. 2012a . The Republic of Wine . Translated by Goldblatt Howard . New York...

... around on crutches looking for the arrowhead, but he never found it. The day he gave up searching, he put up a For Sale sign in his front yard, packed up his van, and drove off to the plains of Montana, where, some say, he got to wearing cowboy hats. A month later, Jenny and her daddy moved...

... analysis. Modern fiction, she argues, is inherently democratizing and secularizing, but it need not wear its politics on its sleeve, nor is it liberatory (in any sense) to read it as if it does. Having sold more than 2 million copies in the US alone and with a Hollywood...

... at her apartment across the river for a couple of weeks. I went over one afternoon and sat in the living room, trying to make it up to her. She was pouting, and wearing an oversize t-shirt and leggings. The screen door was open and you could hear the rain hit the patio. I told her all kinds of stories...

... vista. That evening, I didn t even try to hide the flamingo tie, and Michelle noticed. But it was easy enough to explain away. I d had it for ages, I said. Just hadn t made a habit of wearing it. Too conspicuous. A little showy for my tastes. Michelle laughed and admitted she loved it. It suited me, she...

... the men who served pancakes at the church last month and sell fabric poppies at the one lighted intersection on Memorial Day weekend. They wear neon yel- low vests over their T-shirts and bellies. Just before dark, the traffic into the fairgrounds will become steady, and when dark falls...

...Wayland Stallard © 2011 Wayland Stallard 2011 Wayland Stallard Going Places You were right from the start. You saw trouble coming four years ago when Oriel made an excep- tion and baptized Cleo a year early in Bold Creek in Momma’s white wedding dress. Cleo didn’t want to wear...

... on the front steps is ruined, and a man has come to make repairs. He uses rusted barbed wire to lash the boards together. He should be wearing gloves. His hands bleed, but he doesn’t care about that. A stray dog watches warily. I took him in but forgot to feed him. Where’s his bowl? Where’s his food...

... out of her furs. The dress she wears beneath reveals her slender arms and legs. The other girls, too, expose their soft, pale bodies, and the boys unbutton their shirts, pressing close. They are drunk with warmth. Some tumble outside to dance half-naked in the snow. Gerda takes your hand...

...Ted McLoof © 2011 Ted McLoof 2011 Ted McLoof You’re a Handsome Devil, What’s Your Name? The woman across the street from Alex’s mother’s house wears curl- ers in her hair as she hangs billowy pale-blue sheets from a clothes- line in her yard. It’s five o’clock and Alex wonders why...