She went missing the day before our spring break. A picture of the effervescent youngwoman flashes on my phone with a travel alert from a friend saying, OMG isn’t this where youare going? Yes, kinda, same island but ...
Missing Daughter by Tara Van De Mark
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
In order to get ready to sleep, I used to have to cross my pinky toe over my other toe, on each side, rubbing my foot against the shin of the other leg. This action told my body I was folded up and ready for sleep, ...
Accident Prone by Alison Powell
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Ivy of Knowledgein the university as part of our initiationwe were led astray in a labyrinth together around twilight wandering passagesunable to find Ariadne’s threadbut the walls themselves spokecreaking ...
Three Poems by Marija Mazule Translated by Dave Seter
LAR Online, Translations
Something there is that doesn't love a wall. The stiff earth bending a little. Something shimmers, something is hushed up. In Gaza with its ...
CENTO by Selena Spier
LAR Online, Poetry
At first, I think I’m nauseated from a bad oyster I ate. When the nausea doesn’t go away and I feel exhausted, I suspect I have lymphoma because I knew someone, a nurse in the psych ward at the hospital where I work, ...
Ducks in a Row by Louise Marburg
Fiction, LAR Online
My weary body is cradled in old cotton sheets in a home that rests on Californian land, where my maternal grandparents settled because, to them, New York was inhospitable in climate and temperament. Long ago, my mother ...
The Legends of Los Angeles by Taylor Harrison
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Tales from the Inuit War
It might have been two years ago when a man approached me in the street. He grabbed my arm and hastily told me the story of his humiliation. Somewhere, some people had placed some kind of ...
An excerpt from Tales from the Inuit War by Imre Wirth Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics
LAR Online, Translations
Katherine Irajpanah is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Peripheries, Only Poems, California ...
Two Poems by Katherine Irajpanah
LAR Online, Poetry
It was the first week of the war, and Israeli Adir fighters had taken over Tehran’s sky. In the city’s haze, they were silver ghosts—flashing in and out, leaving rubble and a low roar that trembled through the ...
Would You Call It a Miracle by Farzin Farzam
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
