Mama rouses me in bed before the sun is awake. She has on her yellow knit sweater, her favorite yellow silk scarf, and tight jeans. Her finger presses against her smiling ruby lips. “Don’t wake your father,” she ...
Changin’ a Tire by Hayley Shucker
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Turn Up the Heat by Ruth Danon
Review by Aline Soules
Publisher: Nirala Publications
ISBN: 8195781640
Publication Date: May 25, 2023
Pages: 84 pages
Deduction / Induction: A Review of Turn Up the ...
Turn Up the Heat by Ruth Danon Review by Aline Soules
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Car Fire
And so, delight and wreck teetered
in the late night, in the chassis
turned furnace, turned trembling
heartbeat of flame chasing air
for sky, run ragged from
the jet black it began ...
Two Poems by Willie James
LAR Online, Poetry
When Maro woke up the morning of that summer day, he was supposed to hurry out of bed, take a quick shower and leave for his vacation with his boyfriend of two months. They were planning to spend a week in Dahab, a ...
Maro by Essayed Taha
Fiction, LAR Online
Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee
Review by Dustin Pickering
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: October 3, 2023
ISBN: 1324064706
Pages:112
Deceptively Simple: How to Con an ...
Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee Review by Dustin Pickering
Book Reviews, LAR Online
César Dávila Andrade (Cuenca, 1918—Caracas, 1967) was an Ecuadorian poet, short fiction writer, and essayist. He was known as El Fakir for both his physical appearance and the mystical and ...
Meditation on the Day of Exile by César Dávila Andrade translated by Jonathan Simkins
LAR Online, Translations
Rodney Gomez is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and author of Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He ...
2 poems by Rodney Gomez
LAR Online, Poetry
We found mold again, this time on the white bread next to the toaster.
“I ate it already,” he said, reaching for the bag I was knotting to trap the spores and toss in the trash.
“We don’t eat mold,” I ...