She was taking me to my first drum circle. Golden Gate Park. Overcast July. The promise of barefoot hippies and music and weed and love, all things I desperately needed. The walk down Fulton would take a half hour, but ...
Fulton Street By Eric Scot Tryon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer is a book everyone should read. Kati Standefer has long QT syndrome, and her doctor decides that she needs the surgical implant ...
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer Review by Dr. Kate Gale
Book Reviews, LAR Online
As the young couple enter the rickety Sol-Ventas tram, the air fills with an exotic aroma, arousing the curiosity of a nun, the only other passenger on board.
She ...
On the Tram by Luisa Carnés Translated by Robin Munby
LAR Online, Translations
They came in sputtering cars,
..................kicking the dirt trail to town,
....................................tossing empty Menthol boxes
in tall grass. They came
..................with gravel in ...
The Boys From Homer City by Clare Welsh
LAR Online, Poetry
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin
Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021
Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary
Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
In the beginning, a garden was the theater and launchpad for ...
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
Book Reviews, LAR Online
There may be virtue in restraint—: in distance, drinking,
or—like the child left to cry—in letting your savings
be. How, if you hold still enough to sense the veins’
valves click shut up & down ...
A Love Reckless by Cate Lycurgus
LAR Online, Poetry
The man you swore you’d marry is finally moving out, God bless him. You were starting to worry that he didn’t have a backbone. He’s shuffling about your room, blinking the wet out of his eyes, like a schoolboy ...
A Cat Called Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sam O’Brien
Fiction, LAR Online
Greta Garbo at Kyveleia
..................................My family was poor. I started working at 14, in a beauty
..................................parlor. Then fate came along in the guise of ...
2 poems by Liana Sakelliou Translated by Don Schofield
LAR Online, Translations
I keep a picture of my Grandma’s old yellow farmhouse on my desk. And now that the house no longer exists, this picture is a treasure, the thing I’d grab on the way out if my house in Chicago caught fire.
When my ...
Only A House by Christie Tate
LAR Online, Nonfiction
