NEW_GAME: STATS
+25 white privilege
+25 upper middle class liberal arts education
+25 use of all of your limbs
+15 straight(-but-just-queer-enough-to-be-hip-in-select-social-circles) privilege
+15 face, ...
NEW_GAME001 by Kendra Fortmeyer
Fiction, LAR Online
When I got to work in the morning everyone was standing in the parking lot and looking up as if there were an asteroid incoming, but it was only Margaret Wyman. She was standing naked on the edge of the building. Totally ...
Incident Report by Taylor Koekkoek
Fiction, LAR Online
Because no one had ever paid much attention to the wall between the past and the present, it wasn’t until light from the past began to seep through into the present, and vice versa, that people noticed it was ...
Upkeep by Claire Bateman
Fiction, LAR Online
At a certain point, I realized I wanted to have children but not to raise them. So I packed up and moved myself to a hotel room across town. My wife, Rosie, sent me pictures in the mail. Our daughter Cynthia smiling ...
Snapshots by Bruce Johnson
Fiction, LAR Online
I called her Circe because animals followed her. Dogs, cats, goats, and the occasional pig. They accompanied her down to the harbor and into a cove, where she would sit in the sand, crack fertilized eggs, and trace the ...
Aristotle’s Daughter by Andrew Gretes
Fiction, LAR Online
The bakery was the last building standing and so everyone gathered around its two and a half walls, its one miraculous window. They took turns walking up to what was left of the counter, ordering biscuits and scones from ...
After the End by Kathleen Lane
Fiction, LAR Online
This little story is packed with meaning, as juicy and fat as the fruit it meditates on. I love how the narrator’s fascination with the fruit his grandmother calls “Amarillas” evolves over the course of the story ...
The Christening of the Fruit by Joseph Hernandez
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Once she threw everything out, we thought there would be more room. I gave away a lot I wanted. Mom said, “We can get new stuff,” but you can guess what happened. Our old stuff is still gone.
Except for the puffed ...
Easy Exotic by Sonia Feigelson
Fiction, LAR Online
Don’t do it all at once. Break it apart. Break it down. Make smaller choices. One small choice: Yes or No.
“Are you lonely, Sweetheart?” No.
Push the button firmly so you can feel the click reverberate from ...
How to Choose by Heather Bartlett
Fiction, LAR Online
