At first, I think I’m nauseated from a bad oyster I ate. When the nausea doesn’t go away and I feel exhausted, I suspect I have lymphoma because I knew someone, a nurse in the psych ward at the hospital where I work, ...
Ducks in a Row by Louise Marburg
Fiction, LAR Online
He is the first Black photographer she has ever worked with, older than Steffi but nebulously so, in that she isn’t sure his exact age. Later, he will tell her he is 25, but something about the way he repeats this age, ...
Kots by Eirinie Carson
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“Sure, Jocelyn, I’ll show it to you,” says Leila Clark, the bank manager, when I ask to see the second-floor apartment in the building, advertised as vacant and available. Leila takes a key out of her desk and ...
The People Here by Cary Holladay
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Somehow the shape of his life had gone all Picasso, but unintentionally. He had thought his college education and strong passions would lead him somewhere, anywhere, but things had gone astray, one idle job to the next, ...
Rooming With God by Andrew Bertaina
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Last month, Shamil’s younger brother Anand came to visit them. The day he arrived, he barreled through the door to Shamil and Maria’s apartment, dapped up his much shorter brother, then opened his arms toward the ...
Rapidly Evolving Creatures by Kumari Devarajan
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This is the summer she lives in Brooklyn and smokes cigarettes in the backyard where someone who lives two stories below her has built a swing set for their kid and honeysuckle spreads its rangy fingers over the brick ...
Sanctity by Edie Patterson
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A.X. Benjamin lived in a Scandinavian-inspired glass house on the edge of a mountain proximal to rivers and woods. It wasn’t far from the desert, either. Every day, A.X. Benjamin rose at 4 a.m. to write in a semi-fugue ...
The Greatest Living Writer by Sophie Newman
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“This isn’t even the most erotic thing I’ve done,” Tobi said, her pallid face barely sticking out from under the flamingo-colored duvet. Around us, in the hotel room, were the vestiges of room service and romance ...
Touching Major’s Tooth – or – This Is the Heartbreak You Signed Up For By Jason DeYoung
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Lumps. Always lumps. When will my wife finally learn how to make proper mashed potatoes? The butter, loads of it, roasted garlic, minced onion, and the top-secret ingredient of cottage cheese––just how mom used to ...
Potatoes Au Gratitude by Kristy Holditch
Fiction, LAR Online
