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PIXELIn photosI don’t lookany worse nowadaysit’s justthat for a beautifulphotoit’s necessaryto step backfrom meto retreatfarther and farthersome daythe photowill showa dot.and laterit toowill vanishPIXELНа ...

Three Poems by Alena Maksakova (Алена Максакова), translated by Yana Kane

LAR Online, Translations

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*Because I don’t believe in memoirs and because I was never the kind of precocious young person who is the sort of person whogrows up to become a writer, having kept meticulous and idiosyncraticrecords of their own ...

Brief Encounters with Famous Men by Kimberly Andrews

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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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It all begun in the toilet in the park. There was no pain. She first noticed the blood on the toilet paper. She looked down—the toilet bowl was filled with watery red liquid with several fleshy pieces floating in it. ...

Short Story by Todora Radeva Translated by Yana Ellis

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Casey drives his yellow loader down an empty beach on the Atlantic side of the Cape. The rig’s raised bucket holds three tons of sand, and the four-foot tires leave ribbed tracks that the lapping tide will erase before ...

Erosion Control by Daniel Rousseau

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A few months after I acknowledged my time to bear children was almost up, my sister and her husband announced their pregnancy. As we stood in her Los Feliz dining room, my parents and I hugged twenty-seven-year-old Tessa ...

My Supporting Role as a Childless Mother of Two by Chelsey Drysdale

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A Tipsy Fairy Tale (A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption) by Peter E. Murphy Review By Charles H. Lynch Publisher: Toplight, an imprint of McFarland  & Company, Inc. ISBN: 9-781476-695365 Publication ...

A Tipsy Fairy Tale (A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption) by Peter E. Murphy Review By Charles H. Lynch

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Question everything: the creakof the bridge and the crookof the stair, be wary of the dry,knocking trees, the ochre inyour daughter’s eyes—trustnothing to be only what you askof it. Cherry blossomswill remain ...

THE POET’S GUIDE TO TRANSLATION by Arah Ko

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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

Fiction, LAR Online

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