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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