This was back when I was dating Ziggy, when I didn’t know any better, about anything. He had this leather jacket—vintage, according to him, and handmade from the most venerable bull on his grandfather’s ...
Mystery Men by Katie Cortese
Fiction, LAR Online
At 5:05 PM, Martha grabs her purse and heads to the exit. Matt Chomsky is staring through the sliding glass doors to the patio, where very occasionally, when it isn’t too windy, Martha’s co-workers will sit at the ...
C Bad Drivers by Kim Magowan
Fiction, LAR Online
The movie is post-apocalyptic. A desolate army outpost sits in the shadow of a giant, rusted-out Ferris Wheel in a barren wasteland.
“No one would ride on that,” my mother leans over and whispers in my ear. ...
Concessions by Elizabeth Stix
Fiction, LAR Online
After our mother died, Gemma, my brother’s girlfriend, moved in. Her situation at home was even more fucked than ours, so I agreed to it, though it’s not like I could really refuse. Mostly, I couldn’t hear the two ...
Temporary Organ by Lauren Slaughter
Fiction, LAR Online
There are three groups of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.
-attributed to Anacharsis, c. 6th century B.C.
My landlady, Magda, was a ventriloquist. She threw her voice with eerie precision from ...
The Living, The Dead, and Those at Sea by Cary Holladay
Fiction, LAR Online
The air wasn’t working too well, all the windows were open. I wiped down the bar counter. My wrist was bare, but I checked it for the time anyway. There was a clock across the room, but it inaccurately displayed a ...
Seeking the Good of Others
Fiction, LAR Online
In what remained of the marketplace in the small town of Torata, Peru, the Red Cross rescue workers gathered for briefing. Among the rubble left by the earthquake were watermelons with smashed skulls and yelps of color ...
Torata by Zoe Marie Bel
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Final Judge: Carlos Allende
These Poor Mothers by Vera Chan
They look like my daughter. Sixteen or seventeen, blonde hair that touches their shoul ders, pale faces. The newspaper runs their photographs in black ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Short Fiction Award: Vera Chan
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
I knew it was going to be a bad day when Eliana called. I was playing hooky, walking through a white-walled art gallery, beneath a helix of tiny red, blue, and green sports cars suspended by hundreds of thin wires. ...
Say a Prayer for the Pretender by Alli Cruz
Fiction, LAR Online
