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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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First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction. Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol Coyote appears. “We leave tomorrow. Please be ready.” “And the storm? This ...

El Coyote by Micheal Sarabia

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First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction. Final Judge: Aimee Liu Jamel Myles is gone and it has taken me over a year to write about it. Jamel Myles is gone and ...

Notes Towards an Elegy by Keegan Lawler

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction. Final Judge: Aimee Liu Bored with straight-laced Israeli mores, I was determined to have sex with M. Tonight. I slipped on an ...

Graduate Studies in Hebrew by Sue William Silverman

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction. Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol It tugs at my nipple. Only the first pull is uncomfortable, then it finds its rhythm. I ...

Put A Teat In It! by Jennifer Lewis

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