Recently added articles from Indiana Review:
Superstar
Jul 01, 2008; Kim, Joseph ... "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam." Francis Ford Coppola Bruce is yelling about how good the sushi is, how it cost him $300 for the platter and how he can not believe the "shit" I've decided to pull right now. I tell him it's not shit. I tell him I'm fine with ...
Red Riding Hood to Grandmother
Jul 01, 2008; Ballam, Shanan ... Go ahead, grandmother, slide your tongue along the salt of my cheeks, lick my eyes closed and then take a little nibble-my earlobe, my smallest finger. I've brought a basket of bread we could eat in two snaps, but let's forget about ...
Unrequite
Jul 01, 2008; Taylor, Stephanie ... The wheel turns the water under its stiff knuckle; treads itself in place. The water rushes past, shakes roughly into shape debris into dam, turns matter into light and turns it back again. Water will forget and pull against ...
Sometimes Canned Peas
Jul 01, 2008; Reed, Michelle ... Do it because she's your husband's mother. He's talked with his brother, and they've decided that you'll be perfect. At 56, you don't have a job, really, in the technical sense of the word. Freelance writing, in the world of engineers and accountants, is not a real career. Your husband makes ...
Nightingale
Jul 01, 2008; Wieland, Liza ... Kokila Iqbal's mother was named Sahila, but everyone she knew in Cambridge called her Sallie. When she met Mara at Euston Station in London, she bent and kissed her forehead. "Ah, you girls in difficulties," she said, the pitch of her voice both sad and forgiving. She picked up Mara's suitcase ...
Hold it Till it Hurts (excerpt)
Jul 01, 2008; Johnson, T Geronimo ... A chilles was looking for an average Black male. He described his brother as five feet nine inches tall, one hundred seventy pounds, with light-brown skin and dark-brown eyes. The man with the clipped voice who had answered the phone at the morgue echoed the description then said, as if to ...
Amsterdam, 1936
Jul 01, 2008; Bachar, Greg ... In spring, when I was a child too young to know that it was spring, the milk cart was pulled by a little dog that barked while the milkman rang his bell. We stuck our heads out the window, hoping to see thick cream skimmed from the top of the wood barrel of still-warm milk. The little dog looked ...
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Jul 01, 2008; Clare, Olivia ... She left at night to take the man's dead wife's place and arrived at his door at seven with the dead wife's repose. She arranged fruit on the woman's dishes, kissed the man. This couple had been bards for years, and the man reminded her the death of the ...
Zafra
Jul 01, 2008; Menes, Orlando Ricardo ... Province of Matanzas, Cuba, 1919 Season of sugar harvests, saint's day sweethearts: One-legged François trundles on a donkey cart Across the rutted roads of mill towns to shoot Plump brides in starched flax, silk sashes, calfskin boots, Whose gaunt fathers ...
Four Amulets for a Frightened Farmer
Jul 01, 2008; Nezhukumatathil, Aimee ... Bagufo, Philippines eel stone The white square stone found inside an eel's head. Dry it, and roll it in your hand. Can you hear the tinny music of the bone? Beetles you have never seen before will beg you to stop. They wind their legs in protest. banana stone On a ...
Ghost Pulp
Jul 01, 2008; Thomas, John ... Hub of a shattered mining town, its shards cached by nettles and ferns. Where fragments of antique china lodge in bituminous soil-teething in reverse- and the air sags with homesick molecules. Not a clearing, but a huddle of trees leaning over this ...
Hell
Jul 01, 2008; Wright, William ... after Hieronymous Bosch The damned might as well burrow in the earth, let salt spill into wounds that reblossom, red thrumming in the bone. Sun bends the salt sky, tumbles to shut down each body for another hundred thousand years, dark of milk drowning the ...
In Like Spirit of Saintliness
Jul 01, 2008; Waldrep, G C ... Beaux Arts said the sign, so I went in. Inside I found what appeared to be a dingy shop so cluttered with ancient mannequins and mannequin parts-chipped, denuded-that there was hardly any room to walk. Can I help you, came a voice from the back of the shop. No, just browsing, I called back ...
Variations on an Unknown Theme
Jul 01, 2008; Yu, Christina ... 1. Contest I do not want to not win the contest, but in order to avoid not winning the contest, I must enter the contest, so that I have a chance of winning. But if I have a chance of winning, then I have a chance of losing. The solution, of course, is to enter the contest by mistake ....
Hymn for All Beasts
Jul 01, 2008; Martin, Jynne Dilling ... How beautifully rain washes the dusty bull, standing alone in his small square pen, hooves sinking slow, down into the earth. How calming, the steady circles of foreign satellites above, clicking and purring in unfaltering orbit, likewise the stubborn loops swum ...
Our Cause
Jul 01, 2008; Parker, Jeff ... I knew we were in for trouble the moment the locals, who call resort workers "spank tourists," showed. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a crowd of Carhartt flannels. We couldn't figure who invited them. It was me and Patsy and a few others who have jobs like vacuuming moose heads in the main ...
My Dream as the Beloved
Jul 01, 2008; Goldberg, Beckian Fritz ... None of us in the stars. And now it's June, the long days, and creak of tall palms, birds-of-paradise at night. The wind. I've lived long enough to divine a heart doesn't affect the weather or the place. But in the small universe you kiss ...
Stippling, Winter: Letter to a Tropical Mind
Jul 01, 2008; Hoeppner, Ed Haworth ... Long grasses gone to palomino and an atmospheric tightening. Days grown short. As if to diminish, to turn away can be nourish. Then perhaps not tightening, but slackened time, as the appaloosa standing in this first snow, spot on spot and light and ...
Nature Film, Directed by Martin Scorsese
Jul 01, 2008; Beer, Nicky ... juvenile Barn Owls, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Nest Box Web Camera Our young hero's a mixture of glamour and horror, though Glamhorror sounds like a quaint village in coastal Scotland famous for its driftwood crucifixes and inbreeding. But ...
Warren
Jul 01, 2008; Halliday, Mark ... I think I need a card to operate the printer. I can walk to the front desk and ask about a card. There's no rush. Right foot, left foot. The key thing is to keep it together because if I don't-the edge is close by. I am clean and I am standing straight up and 1 ...