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
Fiction, LAR Online
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
Fiction, LAR Online
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
Fiction, LAR Online
“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
Fiction, LAR Online
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
My wife tried to wring every drop out of music. She read up on what foods doubled as hearing enhancers and thereafter every meal involved some combination of spinach, potatoes, broccoli, liver, wheat germ, mango, kiwi, ...
Once is Enough by Victor McConnell
Fiction, LAR Online
We have sex on the couch, which is the first time we have sex in weeks. It is her suggestion. “Maybe something will be different?” She asks, as if I know the answer. It is different, I guess. I keep groping not at ...
Horizon by Peter Schlachte
Fiction, LAR Online
Once my father took me with him to throw a gun in the river. This was on a Saturday morning in early winter. We climbed into his pickup, and he set the gun, a pistol, down on the seat between us. We both looked at it for ...
The Hollows by Tom Howard
Fiction, LAR Online
Raw almonds, ¼ cup
Raw cantaloupe, 1 cup
Steamed broccoli, 1/2 cup
Cheetos, 1 bag
Turned to internet last night, despite better judgment. Didn’t know what else to do, have been trying to get less fat for months now ...
Figures by Sophie Grossman
Fiction, LAR Online
