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Triptych: Little Deities  1. EL-BO  The morning after she said no to the woman she might have loved, she was accosted by  her left elbow.  EL-BO, it rumbled, a sustained funnybone feeling, ...

2022 Flash Fiction Award Winner: Eliezra Schaffzin

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Middle School  Washington Heights, New York City, 1970  On a rainy day after school I finally get to see Patrice again. We meet up at the pizza joint on St. Nicholas Avenue packed with people staying out ...

2022 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Melinda Goodman

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Wedding Rice by Joshua Levy Well, the pigeons ate the wedding rice and exploded somewhere over San Antonio.  I picked up the newlyweds and asked them where they wanted to go. They said, “We don’t care, we ...

2022 Short Fiction Award Winner: Joshua Levy

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Ode to My Brother, My Dealer, and Instacart Workers in 2020 There are things this year I learned  I would unlearn without pause, like that  I want a woman to shop for my groceries,  her ...

2022 Poetry Award Winner: Haylee Millikan

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Catalog   The first counselor arrives, slipping out of a dark winter coat. He’s dressed in a dark suit and tie, white shirt starched and stiff. The rest of us arrive, the girls I grew up with, playing jump ...

2021 LAR Short Fiction Award Winner: Marilyn Abildskov

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Mammy Mary Says   Your Best Friend and you are on your way to her house. It’s a bit cold and you’re both wearing earmuffs. She lives in the Council Estate closest to your Primary School. You do think ...

2021 LAR Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Lauren Foley

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Eight Arms to Hold You   The first time you asked me to take off my shirt over the internet, I did so and a pea-sized spider fell out. I was surprised, but also not. Summer brings them out in abundance, ...

2021 LAR Flash Fiction Award Winner: Leanne Dunic

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Devotional after covid   I prepare my heart for you. I unlash my ankles from my bone, interlace spine and rib. The same magic that found you, replaced you. Willow reeds, green shoots ...

2021 LAR Poetry Award Winner: Nellie Le Beau

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Second runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction. Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol I covered my eyes. I hid in the circular clothing racks. I trimmed off a small portion ...

ways to disappear by Tarah Knaresboro

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