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Heuston Street and Oppenheimer’s Cottage The last lines of The Living and the Dead about snow falling on the living and the dead are painted, in pastel letters, on an electrical box in downtown Dublin; I saw them last ...

2024 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Rebecca Pyle

Award Winners, Nonfiction

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The Falling Year  I fell from the roof of a building on the first day of the year and didn’t stop falling until the last. It’s not true what they say—that you fall so fast you can’t breathe, or that your heart ...

2024 Short Fiction Award Winner: Kayla Chang

Award Winners, Fiction

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We wrap dark, dome-shaped chocolates in foil with cold fingers. We affix a sticker with Mata’s face to the top of each wrapped chocolate. The wall-mounted air-conditioning unit blows icy air on us. The chocolate room ...

A Golden Light by Mary Katherine Carr

Fiction, LAR Online

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Regression The first day after returning to my townI slept in a tree.The second day back to the moonI slept in a crater.The third day after returning to the worldI slept upon stone.My sister wasn’t living where she ...

Five poems from Animal Muerto by Sebastián Gómez Matus Translated from Spanish by Ian U Lockaby

LAR Online, Translations

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Father Elegies by Stella Hayes Review by: Shannon Vare Christine Publisher: What Books Press Publication Date: October 15th, 2024 ISBN 9798990014930 Page #: 126   Separated into three distinct sections named for ...

Father Elegies by Stella Hayes Review by Shannon Vare Christine

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              T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press, 2024). Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Pleaides, Epiphany, Bellingham ...

My Sister Tells Me She Doesn’t Understand Why Anyone Will Love Her by T. De Los Reyes

LAR Online, Poetry

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1. I remembered someone telling me that the worst thing that could happen was running out of desires, but I just wasn’t wired like that. I was in the back of my car, on New Year’s Eve, with a boy I’d just met. He ...

Bites/Being in Love by Nicole Sellew

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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  This small town, the place where I grew up and occasionally return to, is beautiful, but dull. When I am away, I long for the town’s routines, which, as a teenager, bored me: the boats lowing in the morning; the fog ...

California Romantics by Becky Peterson

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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  Heatstroke I marry a blond man. When I kiss him on the lips, he wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. Flowers of all colors rain down from the sky, and the sound of cheers and applause begins to rise. My wedding ...

A short story by Fereshteh Ahmadi Translated by Siavash Saadlou

LAR Online, Translations

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