She remembered the rain, how it used to beat down on their windows, a gentle drumming easing her to sleep. When last did they have rain? Now it seemed imagined, as if she’d dreamed it up in a fit of madness. The ...
Approaching Day Zero by Tara Manshon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I would like to believe that when the heavy elevator doors slammed shut, separating me from my 81-year old parents at The Louvre, that it wasn’t a big deal. Except that it was. It was a really big deal, though I’m ...
Let’s Try Not to Get Separated Again by Liz Rose Shulman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Ghazal to the Camel DriverOh camel-driver, slow your pace. That's my soul's peace that goes away.The heart I had now leaves with her, a piece of me she stole away.Parted against my will from her, helpless and weak and ...
Two Poems by Mushrifuddin Sa’dī Translated by A. Z. Foreman
LAR Online, Translations
Nicole Santalucia is the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2019), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the ...
We Had a Picnic by Nicole Santalucia
LAR Online, Poetry
“Your parents don’t mind how long we stay?” I asked.
“There’s some kind of a tax thing. Like it’s better if it’s occupied.”
The farmhouse was south of Charleston, halfway between Marlinton and Lewisberg. ...
Quarantine by David Bobrow
Fiction, LAR Online
SAD GROWNUPS by Amy Stuber
Review by Molly McGinnis
Publisher: Stillhouse Press
Publication Date: Oct. 8, 2024
ISBN: 978-0-9969816-6-8
Pages: 224
Surface-level observations often pass for wisdom on the internet. ...
Sad Grownups By Amy Stuber Review by Molly McGinnis
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Death Is OptionalSo, you’d like to escape an apocalypseof your own making. We could hang youupside down in a tank of liquid nitrogen,or upload your brain to the cloud, but we believethat hardcore biohacking is the way ...
Two Poems by Nicholas Montemarano
LAR Online, Poetry
It was a frustrating book to read. He never actually saw the text shift before his eyes, never saw a sentence blur into something else right there on the page. Every time he flipped through the first half of the book, ...
The Ever-Changing Book by Arthur Mandal
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
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The trick to cleaning up the lyrics of a song about sex, like Ariana Grande’s “Love Me Harder” is to swap the words and/or phrases about copulation for ones about singing. The family-friendly company that spells ...
Idolatree by Courtney Miller Santo
LAR Online, Nonfiction
