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The Revolver (Chapter one of the novel titled The Wonderful Life of Kornél Janega) My mom, my late stepfather’s two daughters, and I were sitting in a nine-year-old diesel station wagon with a revolver wrapped in a ...

Short Story by Gábor Kálmán Translated by Tímea Sipos

LAR Online, Translations

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after Lucille CliftonThe morning of your birthday, I take the C train downtown. Find your shadowin every corner of this city: the dark geometry of skyscrapers, the curvatureof black birds. A man’s voice, tired as ...

The Arrogance of Days by Jeffrey Liao

LAR Online, Poetry

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“What are you?” A question, posed by strangers, that has followed me for as long as I can remember. On subways, in classrooms, on the street. People only mean to ask about my ethnic makeup, but to use those ...

“What Are You, and Where is Burma?” by Juliet Way-Henthorne

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Twelve Days From Transfer by Eleanor Kedney Review by Jenny Grassl Publisher: Three: A Taos Press Publication Date: March 2024 ISBN: 9781737056089 Pages :101 Twelve Days From Transfer opens with the poem titled ...

Twelve Days From Transfer by Eleanor Kedney Review by Jenny Grassl

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He is my child and I’m leaving him. He knows it and doesn’t understand why, especially after the weekend. This morning marks a new betrayal, another unforgivable sin. I can still hear his cries from the parking lot; ...

Preschool Drop-off on a Monday Morning by Victor McConnell

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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VenusesI’m groundwater. An enormous furbrat. Shot behind the fence, they died behindthe fence. Juice comes to the surface from the reeds and bark and from the mound of light bulbs. Wantto climb? Here, here, she hissed ...

Three Poems by Tomaž Šalamun Translated by Brian Henry

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Where is the poem? I google the obvious and the algorithm spits back Poe’s “TheRaven” to me. I find this surprising, but not completely wrong.I ask an AI about this search result, and the bot responds that the ...

Resistance to by Alex Saum

Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry

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Once my father took me with him to throw a gun in the river. This was on a Saturday morning in early winter. We climbed into his pickup, and he set the gun, a pistol, down on the seat between us. We both looked at it for ...

The Hollows by Tom Howard

Fiction, LAR Online

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Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly Review by Irene Cooper Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication Date: 4/22/2025 ISBN: 9781771126809 Pages: Illustrated | 194 pages In ...

Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly Review by Irene Cooper

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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