You should not have taken the call. Because now Hiram is saying that the bathtub visions have returned.
And his soul, he adds, is getting crushed. Physically crushed.
You shift the receiver to your left ear. This ...
From the Top of Your Head to the Soles of Your Feet by Steven Hobbs
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Tim Lantz
IRL
Poems by Tommy Pico
Birds, LLC, September 2016
$18.00; 98 pp.
ISBN: 978-0991429868
In IRL, Tommy Pico does what the internet does best: smash cutting the public and private ...
Book Review: IRL by Tommy Pico
Book Reviews, LAR Online
An excerpt from The Perpetual Motion Machine, winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award (forthcoming, fall 2018)
Every Thursday Skyler accompanies me to my ice skating lesson. He’s a much more ...
Square Pizza by Brittany Ackerman
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Wolves Do Not Cover their Dead
Every time you kill a wolf // three more come back // hungrier // hiding memory // night // a
drum I beat // paw stalk for bison and breath // no difference between hunted // haunted ...
Two Poems by Kelly Grace Thomas
LAR Online, Poetry
Juju
After sex, Miss Josephine cleans herself with water from the rain barrel on her stoop. She fills a silver bowl, normally used for washing her hands when she eats garri, and kneels astride it to scoop the water into ...
Two Stories by Mark Cassidy
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Emma Bolden
The Missing Museum
Poems by Amy King
Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016
$14.00; 114 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1939460080
In February 2012, the Russian feminist punk/performance art/protest ...
Book Review: The Missing Museum by Amy King
Book Reviews, LAR Online
After Robert Hass
Many days, for a few months last year,
my friend would call to ask if I
had taken my alprazolam, which stilled
the panicked wings inside my chest.
They were pills the size of larvae.
I broke ...
Gadfly by Jehanne Dubrow
LAR Online, Poetry
It was the Year of Rain, when they hopped over puddles to reach the curb and
scraped the freckles of brown mold that sprouted on their ceiling. The walls of the
apartment were thin as sliced turkey and they could feel ...
Year of Rain by Ilya Leybovich
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Babbage's Dream
Sundress Publications, December 2016
Poems by Neil Aitken
$12.99; 51 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1939675477
How can poetry make us curious about science and ...
Book Review: Babbage’s Dream by Neil Aitken
Book Reviews, LAR Online