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Mexican Lunch Adelaide and her family were sitting in a tiny lunch place in Mexico, just over the Arizona border, where her 77-year-old father, Sheldon, lived with his third (and final) wife.  They had all just ...

Comedy by Elizabeth Weinstein

Fiction, LAR Online

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My father once found a great blue heron dead at the frog pond. He drove an old Volvo station wagon. If my mother ever borrowed the car, she would come back and complain that it was like driving a barge. I’ve realized ...

Animal Planet by Garth Robinson

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Two years ago, I spent the summer in a residential neighborhood in a small town near Yixing. From July to September—the most intolerable months of the year, according to the locals—humid, low-pressure conditions ...

Shuangshuang by Yang Hao Translated from the Chinese by Michael Day

LAR Online, Translations

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Geraldine Clarkson is a writer of Irish heritage, who lives in the English Midlands. Her poetry and prose have been published widely in literary journals internationally. Recent chapbooks are Singletary ...

FLAME by Geraldine Clarkson

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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The Unraveling by Wyn Cooper “I Trust the Wind and Don’t Know Why”: Review by Sara R. Burnett Publisher: White Pine Press Publication Date: May 12, 2026 ISBN: 9781945680885 Pages: 100   What does it mean to ...

The Unraveling by Wyn Cooper Review by Sara R. Burnett

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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LII And we’ll wake up when we feel like it,though ma, all brightness, wakes us with melodious and lovely maternal ire.We’ll laugh on the sly about this,biting the edge of the warm vicuña quilts – and don’t do ...

Trilce LII-LVI by César Vallejo Translated by Mario Domínguez Parra and Michael Lee Rattigan

LAR Online, Translations

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  When they told me my grandfather had ditched the States to be a mayor of a village in Mexico, I knew I had to go. Mijo, they said, don't. Por favor. There is no longer a six-degree separation between the violence and ...

The Mayor of Villa de Los Robles Has a Good Poker Face by Rocio Anica

Fiction, LAR Online

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Ultraviolet --for an Anikó Herbert collagethe castle you watched night after nightis nowhere to be found in the morning as the sun setsa window bursts into bloomthat one is yoursthe ...

Three Poems by Réka Ágnes Tóth Translated by Elizabeth Lukács Chesla

LAR Online, Translations

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When everything ends start walking east until you hit the slabs. See salvation painted on a mountain warning you to keep off the boat rusting alone in the dunes. ...

Slab City by Laura Ribitzky

LAR Online, Poetry

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