We didn’t know how fragile she was when we downloaded the SepTimus app. We thought it would be like the whoopee cushion. Pffffffffffft. Fun for the whole family! Google had inserted microchips in all the Bay Area ...
Laugh Your Beak Off by Jennifer Lewis
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The plastic over us made a sound like water boiling, and beneath that, a frequency too low for ears, felt only in teeth, the way metal sings before it moves. Sun hammered sheet-metal roofs; air tasted of ...
When the Metal Prays by Priyanka Kumra
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
They found a ledge at 220 meters.
That’s what the French expedition reported last spring, after lowering a mini-submarine into Red Lake, into a gash of blue and rust carved in the karst above Imotski in the Dalmatian ...
Between Gravity and Grace by Maria B Olujic
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
I hold a small cultivator, three-pronged claw to dig this garden of gone, home no more.Clad in plastic booties, mask and gloves,I don’t know how to unearth joy.Too much grievous rubble, scathed holidays,fire-corroded ...
Garden of Ash by Regina O’Melveny
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
The Bargain
The Jhelum River starts at the foothills of the Himalayas, then winds through the disputed Kashmir Valley—first the Indian-administered side, then the Pakistani—, ending 200 kilometers from the ...
2024 Flash Fiction Award Winner: Rikha Sharma Rani
Award Winners, Flash Fiction
Paper BoatsIn a wished life, my mornings opennot with the jolt of an alarmbut with the rustle of pages turning softly.In the margins of old bookswhere coffee spills are constellations,and cigarette burns stain ...
2024 Poetry Award Winner: Leonardo Chung
Award Winners, Poetry
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
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
Final Judge: John Weir
God Wears a Hard Hat by J. Dominic Patacsil
There comes a rare moment in life, when all else can and has failed, that you may find yourself like me, looking at a Dutch guide named Jan, who ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Flash Fiction Award: J. Dominic Patacsil
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
