When I was seven years old, I was touched by a priest. It was at St. Ignatius Church in Fowler, Massachusetts. No one in Fowler was surprised to hear that Father Todd had molested a child, but all his past incidents had ...
Touched, by Antonio Elefano
Fiction, LAR Online
In my will, I left my remains to be split evenly by all of my ex-boyfriends. They already had me, might as well take me again.
To Whom It May Concern,
I hereby bequeath my body to my ex boyfriends, under ...
Dismember Me by Joanna Rafael Goldberg
Fiction, LAR Online
I stand at the kitchen entry, hands on my hips, trying to catch my breath. Outside, people in the streets of Kharkiv are panicked; the explosion sent them running this way and that. Inside, there is a sense of ...
The Pommel Horse by Olga Breydo
Fiction, LAR Online
Michelle wasn’t thinking about her little sister as she crossed Euclid Avenue that evening. She wasn’t thinking about trick-or-treating or her lazy costume, a black fright wig and bloody lips. She wasn’t ...
Halloween, Shaker Heights, 1992 by Thomas Price
Fiction, LAR Online
Here on the coast, the mornings bring outsiders. Crows from the Valley, like slashed black scarves, descend on the hillside houses and telephone poles. They squabble with the native gulls over the trash in the liquor ...
Subtraction by Sean Madden
Fiction, LAR Online
Once there were fires.
Macario started them, at first in the empty lots dotting our town. Several times I caught him feeding kerosene into trash-filled barrels near the hotel that doubled as a wax museum on ...
El Mano Negra by Mario J. Gonzales
Fiction, LAR Online
Missed Spot Shaving
He missed a spot shaving, two spots, actually, one on each side of his chin directly below where he might have had dimples if he smiled more. It was because of this new shaving cream his girlfriend ...
Two Stories by Adam Falik
Fiction, LAR Online
Clark Creek
You try to keep your kids safe. You try to keep them from the things that scared you most as a child, even if those things were only imaginary. I don’t remember who gave me the book as a girl, but I ...
Three Stories on Monsters, on Grieving in the Gulf South by Adam Gnuse
Fiction, LAR Online
Smoldering Lascar turned violet against a desert sky lit pink by the setting sun. As evening slid over the Andean foothills and across the desert floor, Tomás sat on an ancient stone wall, smoothing dollar bills ...
Smoldering Lascar by Kevin Galvin
Fiction, LAR Online
