This is a story about Saeed, which my father told my mother before they’d even considered bringing me into the world, and my mother told me one day when I was trying to heat a pita on the stove. To be precise, Baba ...
Saeed by Amir Sommer translated by Jessica Cohen
Fiction, LAR Online
I tell her he's gone. For real this time. I deleted his number last weekend while scotch-drunk, so it's not like he's at the door when the buzzer rings. It's just takeout. Ok, dog? It’s Bombay curry. She barrels down ...
My Dog Misses My Ex by Lyndsey Reese
Fiction, LAR Online
On Christmas Eve night Britany McConnell and Christian McConnell went outside to set up a trampoline for their children. Trampolines had been formative to both Britany and Christian; a place to learn to flip before the big ...
Trampoline by Jonny TwoxFour
Fiction, LAR Online
This was the difference between being the graduate student with a piece of shit car and being the professor with the keys to an office—well, one of them anyway. You never needed to utter I feel or In my opinion or If ...
Through the Blizzard by Stephen Haines
Fiction, LAR Online
Today, you texted him. “Happy birthday!” said the text. He did not respond, and from here on out, you will not speak again.
A month ago, you saw him while you were on a Tinder date with someone else. At least you ...
The Years by Kalila Holt
Fiction, LAR Online
The day I was expected at Missy Cadwell’s, a woman across town left her screen door open and got mauled to death in her own living room.
Domesticated, Missy always said about the bears, overly domesticated.
I ...
To Stop the Head from Running Wild by Kieran Mundy
Fiction, LAR Online
The first time I ever saw a heart was on our kitchen floor. Mother was dissecting a chicken on the tiles. It was the time of war and the best you could get from the meat market was a fully plucked chicken with the head ...
My Mother’s Heart by Mehr-Afarin Kohan
Fiction, LAR Online
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
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
The cat-sitter is on the lime green couch with her legs open in the air, head dangling on the floor. Her name is Daisy-Lily Miller, this is not her occupation; she just happens to be cat-sitting for the poet whose house ...
When The Girls Try by Zoë E. Wilson
Fiction, LAR Online
