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... she loses more blood than Ann has in a month. The Thermophobic’s Wife Twenty years in the steel mill, and now he can’t keep cool enough. She does everything she can— has a cold shower running at the first crunch of gravel,  lets him sleep naked on top of white...

...Owen McLeod © 2016 Owen McLeod 2016 Owen McLeod In My Wife’s Vegetable Garden   I was startled to find —​among the beans and cucumbers, the tomatoes and squash, the peppers, eggplants, cabbage, and kale —​ my head. Or what seemed to be my head...

...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...

...Mark L. Keats Copyright © 2019 Mark L. Keats 2019 Mark L. Keats Automaton Babies We re having a baby, my wife says to me. She s sitting at the com- puter in the living room and looking at something. A glass of wine nearby. I m not unhappy with the news, but I m confused. My wife has already...

... position of defending the ex-horror movie director during dinner and cocktail conversation. The sex was consensual, I argue. The use of scar tissue as erogenous zone is positive, even redemptive. No one in the room but my wife is aware of the vagina-shaped scar gouging the majority of my inner...

... about the Virgin Mary and decides to quit, to get divorced and just give up everything and move to some ranch in Wyoming that takes care of ex-racehorses or troubled teens or something along those lines) after the third no. So that night he s despondent. Wife catches him smoking for the first time...

... . Fish Stanley . `` Consequences .'' Critical Inquiry 11 ( March 1985 ): 433 - 58 . Graff Gerald . Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind . New Haven : Yale UP , 2003 . Sacks Oliver . `` The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat .'' The Man Who...

... was kidding when I told him I was on my honeymoon. I told him I would have married him instead, but I was allergic to dogs. Bad wife, bad wife. I remember saying, No, honestly, I’m a newlywed, when he asked if I wanted to join him for a cup of coffee. I remember saying, What have I done? after...

... —​beneath the fragrant Water lilies. I am rocking on the porch; My wife, in the garden, examining her Tulips, cornflowers, calla lilies, plums —​ As if she should never again feel them. Our daughter,       whose skin is phosphor, In whose mouth the red...

... damn thing without a degree, her coal-shoveling sugar daddy that pays the bills while his wife blows twenties and other men. He believes it after hours in the dark, wary of rock fall and loose women that laugh in the tunnels and run their nails up someone else’s back...

...-softness, lamb's wool. Sometimes it wasn't. Our mistake, to ignore this sadness. In Hebrew mythology, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, who was replaced by Eve due to Lilith's headstrong insistence that she was Adam's equal. As punishment, she was thrown from...

...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...

... rocking chair behind. For fooling himself and his wife into so much loss. For leading each of his dear, obedient children to their deaths. He murmured to neighbors, friends, the brethren. Pray, they told him. Nothing to be done now except to pray. So Amos prayed. He fasted for a week...

... window, splashing and talking to imaginary sailors on his toy boat. From closer comes the clatter of dishes as his wife clears the kitchen table. He has come back outside to water the roses, or so he has told her, but after turning on the sprinkler, he makes no move toward the door. He...

... am: an old girlfriend or an ex-wife, or maybe someone they’ve seen in a magazine, only they don’t usually stick around long enough for me to find out. Not Ivan. He comes to see me almost every evening during the week when he’s done teaching at Roosevelt High. He calls me Jacqueline instead...

... the azimuth above the eyes, my father’s forehead or my wife’s forehead but you know they just look into the ground. I’m against gum chewing. But I do like the songs of birds and the way they bathe in dust and everything is OK and I’m not like the others so I just thank God for that one. I stay out...

... was losing control of them. Where’s the cricket, I yelled. My son pointed to the ground. I ran over and stomped down again and again. “The cricket’s dead!” I yelled. The boys stared. “The cricket’s dead!” My son cried. . . . My wife pours another glass, says I...

...,” and not a week later, she has a miscarriage, and he has to drive her to the hospital where she loses more blood than Ann has in a month. The Thermophobic’s Wife Twenty years in the steel mill, and now he can’t keep cool enough. She does everything she can— has...

..., and my job, and my son, and my wife, and my family, both immediate and extended, and my debt, both real and imagined, my childhood, my dad, my older brother whom I hardly ever see, my hobbies which I lie about because I don’t have any, my eating habits, my age, my dreams, my fears…. “Hour’s...

...Mithran Somasundrum © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Mithran Somasundrum Asian Tigers Mana’s wife was an auditor. She visited factories all over Thailand, checking they complied with ISO regulations. She audited the hygiene, the suppliers, the traceability. At times...