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...Whittney Jones © 2013 Whittney Jones 2013 Whittney Jones I Could Call You Worse Things It’s the implications when she says his name that he doesn’t like. Coal miner: covered in soot, bent at the joints, toothless, hillbilly. Never gonna amount to a single...

...Robin Gow Copyright © 2021 Robin Gow 2021 Robin Gow My Brief Life as a Pheromone Salesgirl A bad advertisement always sounds like a command or, worse, a threat. Sometimes, an empty revelation. I was nineteen when I started working as the Social Media Marketer for a human pheromone company...

... and learning they ‘teach’ against the ideology, the system and the practices in which they are trapped. They are a kind of hero. But they are rare and how many (the majority) do not even begin to suspect the ‘work’ the system…forces them to do, or worse, put all their heart...

..., thirsty animals, men who ve done worse with their lives scavenging the depths with nets for the same forgiveness. Everywhere the same wild grasses sway like tiny houses on fire. minnesota review 93 (2019) DOI 10.1215/00265667-7737003 © 2019 John Sibley Williams 13 ...

... with their savings. Maybe what I did isn’t so bad, but as it’s mine, it feels worse. The morning sun casts a shadow of bars across our faces. In some ways, life is easier here. Our choices, gone —​but it’s hard to decide, to choose to be loving day by day, step...

... in the desert, at midnight. A light comes on, goes off again, mendicant in the wind’s eye. It is not memory that spares us, but something worse. In truth, it was only the third apple I regretted. My love shifts in her green sleep. I bear her dreams as scars. minnesota review 86 (2016...

... home shows signs of a mind slipping into water. Ants in the sugar bowl, smell of burnt sour dough stretching in an oven. He tells me to be honest because not saying anything would be worse than a flat out lie. Outside a large bug zapper comes to light after congressing with the small body...

..., the talks of strikes planned and never sprung. You won't let anyone tell you you don't know what's at stake: your mother bent over a Singer for sixteen hours a day, your father on the scaffolding, nailing boards to roofbeams with a broken leg from a long run of bad ladders and worse luck...

...Mark Jacob © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Mark Jacob Sniff It must be a burden to have a last name that’s a common noun, like Bob Love or Nelson Riddle or Cubby Broccoli. But it must be even worse to be born a verb. Which was why I felt sorry for Tom Sniff. “I think his name...

... is belief, or (worse) everything is faith. This equation too is a way of living with emotional and ethical contradiction—living with them so as to enjoy the insuperability of the contradictions. Which leaves me to reflect that when I chose “meaning” over “meaninglessness” on September 12...

... is idiotic, but when she exhales, he’s reminded of planes writing messages with smoke. He loved those as a child. She climbs a birch tree, and he asks if she’s read the Robert Frost poem. She says no, but he thinks he could do worse than her. That’s the fall- ing in. Now K’s in Illinois. I’m...

... like snakes. I ve never liked snakes, there s something creepy about the way they propel their body across ground. But these intestines are worse, so much worse because their color, because they do not move at all. I m trying to make this story my own, make it unique, but I suspect all the remaining...

... with the questions raised, defenders of those views —​for example, theologians or moral philosophers —​charge these scholars with maintaining or implying absurd things, such as “anything goes” or “everything’s equally good” or “you shouldn’t judge things as better or worse.” Most people would agree that our...

... is a powerful rendering of a union that has truly tested the vow "for better or for worse." "Often hilariousa fittingly complex portrait of a family that, in its branching byways, resembles what families really zx<zThe Los Angeles Times Book Review "266...

... job where you can keep your hash pipe in a baggie in the dumpster behind the store and volunteer to take out trash six nights a week and get paid to get stoned off your ass. And I think things can’t get worse for Ann until the night when the cashier who I’ve always thought was beautiful...

..., theology, and Chaucer. 82 the minnesota review Let there be no misunderstanding: the idea here is not to replace modern with medieval theory in some nostalgic turn to the past, when things and ideas were supposedly better or worse, depending on what you are looking at. Rather...

... knows they can t pay for it and it ll be a waste of his time anyway. Sometimes he drives out to Wal- Mart in the middle of the night because the fluorescence keeps him up, and the less he sleeps, the worse he figures he ll get. He pays for every- thing in cash. He burns the receipts. He spends hours...

... drop out of the boarding school I used to go to before it got too expensive. The school would ve taken care of the outstanding fees had she not yelled at one of the directors for patronizing her. I despised her for ruining my life. I despised her even worse for making me feel sorry for her, turning my...

... not love enough or that it is not enough loved. (Hadewijch 1980, 64–65, translation slightly modified) Certainly, nothing would be worse than substituting for an inadequate response, but one still giving evidence of a sincere, modest, finite, resigned effort, an interminable...

..., and the ways in which they adapted their farming techniques in the new landscape. She charts the com- munity’s effort to be included in the city’s plans for redevelopment after Katrina, as opposed to having its neighborhood turned into green space or, worse, into a dumping ground for the city’s...