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
I. Boothbay
I contemplate my bad habits as I gaze over a harbor in Maine at a glowing cathedral, floating on the third day of a booze high and letting the scarce appearance of the sun turn me soppy. I figure Jesus ...
I Never Met A Man Who Didn’t Turn Mean About His Sleep by Emily DeYoung
LAR Online, Nonfiction
ZEJNEPA AROSE EARLYZejnepa arose early.She arose before dawn.She swept her vast quarters,She baked hot loaves of bread,She cobbled light footgear,Then she began looking for her Kurto.She went far in search of him.There ...
Gorani Lyrics Translated by Denis Ferhatović
LAR Online, Translations
Tuesday afternoons my prof & I would meet because I knew the guy who supervised the cages, who’d unlock the token box so we could swing for free. I’d watch as Alan — bifocals sweat-streaked & pacemaker ...
Intro to Poetry by Reed Turchi
LAR Online, Poetry
"Are you gonna do it?" Ava Gardner’s clone leans against the wall, her black tube top indifferent to gravity.
"Do what?" Betsy asks, even though she knows.
Ava Gardner Jr. (nom de scene) drove her home last week in ...
Betsy’s Risk by Delaina Hlavin
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“You are, you know, you were the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life.”
—Renata Adler, Pitch ...
White Space by Robin Lippincott
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Sirens by Emila Hart
Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Publisher: St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Publication Date: April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781250280824Page #: 352 pages
In 2023, novelist Emilia Hart shocked and awed ...
The Sirens by Emilia Hart Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Book Reviews, 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
The Revolver
(Chapter one of the novel titled The Wonderful Life of Kornél Janega)
My mom, my late stepfather’s two daughters, and I were sitting in a nine-year-old diesel station wagon with a revolver wrapped in a ...
Short Story by Gábor Kálmán Translated by Tímea Sipos
LAR Online, Translations
