Final Judge: Carlos Allende
These Poor Mothers by Vera Chan
They look like my daughter. Sixteen or seventeen, blonde hair that touches their shoul ders, pale faces. The newspaper runs their photographs in black ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Short Fiction Award: Vera Chan
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
I never intended to go back to my old neighborhood. I’d been visiting a friend in Glendale, and when the familiar exit appeared, the steering wheel seemed to turn of its own accord. I slid into a parking spot in front ...
On Letting Go by Amber Foster
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Of Tyrant by Leah Umansky
Review by Shannon Vare Christine
Interview by Tiffany Troy
Publisher: Word Works
Publication Date: May 1, 2024
ISBN: 1944585745
Pages: 80
A Review by Shannon Vare ...
Of Tyrant by Leah Umansky Review by Shannon Vare Christine Interview by Tiffany Troy
Book Reviews, Interviews, LAR Online
WINGS
It’s dusk.
Somewhere beyond the clouds a plane
flies with its windows closed
so the dead don’t see what they’re giving up.
“Don’t let the kite fly too high.
It can learn to be a ...
3 Poems by Teemu Helle Translated by Niina Pollari
LAR Online, Translations
To the Woman Dragging Her Son Across Water Street
Tell me what he’s done, and I’ll believe you.
Last week my own daughter
laid down on the floor of a Walgreens,
tried to ...
2 poems by Sarah Carson
LAR Online, Poetry
The dead woman’s photo passed through us girls like a virus, illuminated in our cracked glass phone screens and threaded through our email chains. Her death was tinted seal sick blue, tinged darker around the corners ...
Trendsetters by Lauren E. Osborn
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
When you walk along the path, it curves slowly to the right, turning out of view only just before the horizon line. Trees line both sides, and they grow, like all trees on the plains, along a stream and out from a ...
Twixt Eden and Gethsemane: Notes on Contaminants of Concern in Wichita, Kansas by Jeromiah Taylor
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Tu le connais lecteur, ce monster dèlicat,
Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère!
—Charles Baudelaire
My own excessive delicacy, thankless humility, and various muddled activities over the past ...
The Great Secret by Moikom Zeqo translated by Wayne Miller
LAR Online, Translations
Telemetry. I woke up with a desire to use that word today but couldn't figure out how. It's nearing, oh, eleven o'clock now—PM, mind you—and I still haven't got it right. At the diner this morning I asked the server ...
Sources Say by Bradley David
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
