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
Father Elegies by Stella Hayes
Review by: Shannon Vare Christine
Publisher: What Books Press
Publication Date: October 15th, 2024
ISBN 9798990014930
Page #: 126
Separated into three distinct sections named for ...
Father Elegies by Stella Hayes Review by Shannon Vare Christine
Book Reviews, LAR Online
T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press, 2024). Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Pleaides, Epiphany, Bellingham ...
My Sister Tells Me She Doesn’t Understand Why Anyone Will Love Her by T. De Los Reyes
LAR Online, Poetry
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I remembered someone telling me that the worst thing that could happen was running out of desires, but I just wasn’t wired like that. I was in the back of my car, on New Year’s Eve, with a boy I’d just met. He ...
Bites/Being in Love by Nicole Sellew
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
This small town, the place where I grew up and occasionally return to, is beautiful, but dull. When I am away, I long for the town’s routines, which, as a teenager, bored me: the boats lowing in the morning; the fog ...
California Romantics by Becky Peterson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
