You have to leave now and outside the wind is unwavering along the windows. On the old oak nightstand the telephone screams and falls silent, screams again and falls silent, screams and no one answers, screams and no ...
January by Hannah Liberman
Fiction, LAR Online
Two days before I flew to my childhood home in rural Assam, India, an unaccountable itch made me put off some last-minute tasks and rush over to Will Rogers State Historic Park, in the Pacific Palisades. The vast lawn ...
Love Letter to Will Rogers, from Assam by Grace Singh Smith
LAR Online, Nonfiction
父亲晚景我从新疆回来那一天他正在一棵老桃树下种菜在给白菜垫底肥的时候他也给桃树上了肥料这使桃树在四年后他离开时依然结出了硕果 ...
Five Poems by Nianxi Chen Translated by Kuo Zhang & Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
LAR Online, Translations
The shop was just a gray concrete box in the middle of an empty parking lot. It wasn’t closed, but it looked closed. It looked like a place we shouldn’t be.
Michael wanted cowboy boots, but shopping for cowboy ...
One King Bed and Two Keys by Miguel Camnitzer
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Grandma Roberts has a secret. She tells me this as I’m lugging a jug of brown well water across the old cemetery while trying not to knock my shins against the stones. It is the summer of 2015, five years before she ...
Home to Ohio by Chelsie Bryant
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Book by Mary Ruefle
Review by Donna Vatnick
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication Date: September 2023, re-release March 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950268-84-9
Pages: 112
“We were in our thirties and considered ourselves ...
The Book by Mary Ruefle Review by Donna Vatnick
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Glory DaysMy god, I have no one left.I use payphones.*I will ask for lifefrom the branches of a treeon an abandoned streetwhere an old woman with a shopping cartsells masks and streamers for a child’s party*When I ...
Glory Days by Jesse Littlejohn
LAR Online, Poetry
We wrap dark, dome-shaped chocolates in foil with cold fingers. We affix a sticker with Mata’s face to the top of each wrapped chocolate. The wall-mounted air-conditioning unit blows icy air on us. The chocolate room ...
A Golden Light by Mary Katherine Carr
Fiction, LAR Online
Regression The first day after returning to my townI slept in a tree.The second day back to the moonI slept in a crater.The third day after returning to the worldI slept upon stone.My sister wasn’t living where she ...
Five poems from Animal Muerto by Sebastián Gómez Matus Translated from Spanish by Ian U Lockaby
LAR Online, Translations
