One of you has slit a finger while opening
a parcel with the Exacto knife kept by
the front door, while the other is hanging
up a coat, tossing keys in a basket. There
is blood on one of your thighs. ...
Very Long Marriage by Elizabeth Jacobson
LAR Online, Poetry
The second girl sweeps into arabesque—a sleep-dancing marionette.
“Good, good,” says Apolline. “Good.”
Copper-haired faces tilt towards her like sunflowers. There is no music here. Only Apolline’s ...
Softly, Gently, Softly by Sophie Hoss
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Brocken Spectre
by Jacques J. Rancourt
Alice James Books
100 Pages
September 14, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1948579209
Review by Erica Charis-Molling
What does it mean to love when one’s love has ...
Brocken Spectre by Jacques J. Rancourt Book Review by Erica Charis-Molling
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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In you come. You’ve been carting junk
All day; you dump it. Fire up the candles
With a glance. God what a slum.
You slip off your cloak.
You ache an ache as old as time.
Music! Put on ...
3 poems by Lyudmila Knyazeva Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes
LAR Online, Translations
When the Night Is Near as a Bird
whose nest has toppled,
and the bird seeks out the cotton
of your shirt to curl into— such a risk
the bird takes to love a human,
humans being such ...
When the Night Is Near as a Bird by Doris Ferleger
LAR Online, Poetry
The day began before sunrise. Hong Insu woke to a house so dark and quiet it seemed submerged under water. He felt a presence in the room: a fragment of his mother’s unhappiness had slipped in through the wall and was ...
Have a Nice Day by Sera Yu
Fiction, LAR Online
The War in the Bully Boss
.........................................for my father
......................................................As if the first day at McDonald’s isn’t like burning grease ...
Collection by Dennis Etzel Jr.
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Saga Boy, a heart-warming memoir by Antonio Michael Downing, is a story of the impact of unaddressed generational trauma on a family. In four acts and an epilogue, Downing chronicles his life from his childhood in ...
Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing Review by Carol Mitchell
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Overnight, the land traded faces, brownstone roofs
newly suffocated in snow, and with nothing between
us but an open window, she and I sat, smoking,
shivering like a punishment, each with one hand out ...
Advance by Katherine Fallon
LAR Online, Poetry
