We will never learn to speak Spanish—our mother fights us every step of the way. She wants nothing to do with her father’s language, nothing that reminds her of him— including herself. We’ve seen the proof in the ...
Buen Provecho by Amina Gautier
Fiction, LAR Online
I was eating brunch the first time I saw the drifts of slow white fall from the sky. It was July in San Francisco. A fat flake settled atop my hollandaise, too light to dent the shiny yellow fat. I can only fear what I ...
Paradise, Recycled by Margaret “Charley” Burlock
LAR Online, Nonfiction
No Society Without Poetry:
A Conversation with Sheng Keyi about Death Fugue
Tiffany Troy: Do you want to introduce yourself to your readers of the world?
Sheng Keyi: I was born in the 1970’s in a small ...
Interview with Sheng Keyi by Tiffany Troy
Interviews, LAR Online
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
