We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune teller to predict ...
The Aggregate of Our Joy by Elizabeth Rosen
Fiction, LAR Online
The Howl
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Okay. Let’s try this out.
One: The dark wood texture of the tall-backed waiting room bench that wraps around the wall. I’m alone on this side, but there’s a twin bench on the far wall with two ...
The Howl by Hana Rehman
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[after Borges]
It is said that sometime in late 2029, in a server farm in Virginia, a research team constructed a machine that could generate every human thought that could ever be imagined. The project, financed by a ...
The Archive of Ananke by Jade Bailey Brock
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The trouble in Faye Steinbruch’s marriage emerged when they received a pair of theater tickets purchased in the name of their recently deceased neighbor. This was far from the first time the couple had received mail ...
Understudies in the Audience by Jacob Appel
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I loved my mother. She bought me an alarm clock for my twelfth birthday because I was always late to school, slow to wake under her gentle hands. She smelled of powdery makeup and sweet perfume. Her steps made no sound ...
Sugar by Annabelle Taghinia
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Adele Voyria (AV) is a Scottish-based author, poet, and screenwriter. They have been shortlisted for the Grierson Verse Prize and the ...
Ouroboros by Adele Voyria
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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
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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
Fiction, LAR Online
