After dark, our father hides behind a lamppost, waiting. The streetlights stammer. Our father burns bright in the flicker, disappears, and returns, hunched and taking slugs off his flask. A ratty Toyota two-door ...
Dump Truck, Baby Brother by Patrick Strickland
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Aspen leaves flutter to the still-green grass as our youngest child, Teddy, rambles through the yard, whacking the tree’s silvery trunk and mushrooms, sprung after a rare Wyoming rain, and our raspberry bushes, their ...
Yellow by Anemone Beaulier
LAR Online, Nonfiction
PIXELIn photosI don’t lookany worse nowadaysit’s justthat for a beautifulphotoit’s necessaryto step backfrom meto retreatfarther and farthersome daythe photowill showa dot.and laterit toowill vanishPIXELНа ...
Three Poems by Alena Maksakova (Алена Максакова), translated by Yana Kane
LAR Online, Translations
*Because I don’t believe in memoirs and because I was never the kind of precocious young person who is the sort of person whogrows up to become a writer, having kept meticulous and idiosyncraticrecords of their own ...
Brief Encounters with Famous Men by Kimberly Andrews
LAR Online, Poetry
Last month, Shamil’s younger brother Anand came to visit them. The day he arrived, he barreled through the door to Shamil and Maria’s apartment, dapped up his much shorter brother, then opened his arms toward the ...
Rapidly Evolving Creatures by Kumari Devarajan
Fiction, LAR Online
It all begun in the toilet in the park. There was no pain. She first noticed the blood on the toilet paper. She looked down—the toilet bowl was filled with watery red liquid with several fleshy pieces floating in it. ...
Short Story by Todora Radeva Translated by Yana Ellis
LAR Online, Translations
Casey drives his yellow loader down an empty beach on the Atlantic side of the Cape. The rig’s raised bucket holds three tons of sand, and the four-foot tires leave ribbed tracks that the lapping tide will erase before ...
Erosion Control by Daniel Rousseau
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
A few months after I acknowledged my time to bear children was almost up, my sister and her husband announced their pregnancy. As we stood in her Los Feliz dining room, my parents and I hugged twenty-seven-year-old Tessa ...
My Supporting Role as a Childless Mother of Two by Chelsey Drysdale
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A Tipsy Fairy Tale (A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption) by Peter E. Murphy
Review By Charles H. Lynch
Publisher: Toplight, an imprint of McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9-781476-695365
Publication ...
A Tipsy Fairy Tale (A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption) by Peter E. Murphy Review By Charles H. Lynch
Book Reviews, LAR Online
