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Pompeii I see you playing immersed in the light, I hear the melody. With that note began the destruction of Pompeii, that tierce the rumble of the lithospheric plates, with that chord began the ...

Poems by Josef Kučera Translated by Joshua Mensch

LAR Online, Translations

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In our first trimester we took vitamins and drank milk. In our second, we felt for movements and carried home ultrasounds. When asked what we wanted, boy or girl, we resorted to the obvious—"as long as they're ...

What We Didn’t Know by Sharon Gusky

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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They did not know—the first flowers in space, planted by a hand years removed from another, already the bones losing mass, density another word for dependent, the way oblong seeds in ...

Zinnias by Sarah Fawn Montgomery

LAR Online, Poetry

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This is a story about Saeed, which my father told my mother before they’d even considered bringing me into the world, and my mother told me one day when I was trying to heat a pita on the stove. To be precise, Baba ...

Saeed by Amir Sommer translated by Jessica Cohen

Fiction, LAR Online

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The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero Translated by Robin Myers Review by Brent Ameneyro ISBN: 978-1-945720-26-0 Paperback 140 pp Publication Date: May 10, 2022 Cardboard House ...

The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero Review by Brent Ameneyro

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Excerpt from Battle by Aurélie William Levaux Editions Cambourakis (2019) Translated from the French by Johanna McCalmont The bathtub is huge, you could easily fit four people in it, no, I’m ...

Excerpt from Battle by Aurélie William Levaux translated by Johanna McCalmont

LAR Online, Translations

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Hyacinth: killed by a stone discus, by accident or out of anger, thrown by his lover. And always after one murder or another  a great power wonders, how shall I commemorate the act? Already the boy is ...

Hyacinth by Lee Upton

LAR Online, Poetry

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Remember that night, my son?  The world – whatever that is – was altogether different.  You were altogether different.  I was there with you.  I felt your still heart and saw flashes of ...

A Night to Remember by Victor McConnell

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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1. Well, here you are.  You made it from Montevideo, Uruguay, back to your house in Madison, Wisconsin on a plane of stranded people returning to first Chile, then Miami. And on from there on packed ...

A Test by Jesse Lee Kercheval

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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