We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune teller to predict ...
The Aggregate of Our Joy by Elizabeth Rosen
Fiction, LAR Online
In the high school wrestling gym, it never seemed there were locker rooms. There were bodies. Boys with shirts off or shirts on. Boys with sweatpants and slippery torsos peeking out over elastic bands. Or with ...
The Wrestler by Elizabeth Wenger
LAR Online, Nonfiction
TWO GODS—I’d been told I shouldn’t touch you before we were sure the flights hadn’t spread infection. My platelets low these many monthslater, I had the kind of cough that wracks likelava spit from deepest ...
Two poems by Kevin Clark
LAR Online, Poetry
Dear Liam,
I’m glad you’re having a great time in Vermont. It’s really nice of you to ask me to join you on your vacation. I can’t get away now on account of my work at Tessera Therapeutics, which is keeping me ...
Vacation in Vermont by Tara Menon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Rooster or Veranda or Rose The rooster hides The sadness of the Iranian rose Inside the pocket of the ash-colored dress In the past he also had to hide The sadness of the dying rivers in the northThe humming of the ...
Three Poems by Afroja Shoma Translated by Quamrul Hassan
LAR Online, Translations
Twenty minutes away from this house is a house without rooms and cabinets and foal-dark carpeting and a womanwho wears my mother’s face to clean the dishes and the linoleum floors and the delicate white lace ...
The Face-to-Face Encounter by Chelsea Dingman
LAR Online, Poetry
The Howl
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Okay. Let’s try this out.
One: The dark wood texture of the tall-backed waiting room bench that wraps around the wall. I’m alone on this side, but there’s a twin bench on the far wall with two ...
The Howl by Hana Rehman
Fiction, LAR Online
tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn
Reviewer: Deborah Bacharach
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Publication Date: 2025
ISBN: 978-1-968148-07-2
Pages: 101
Time’s unrelenting advance, nature about to explode, a heart finding ...
tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I remember the stretch of Sauvie Island with the dark gray sand. We chose the nudebeach, easier to get parking. I would lie in the sun while old men au naturel traipsed up and down through shallow water. There was a ...
Smoke by Grace Tessier Culhane
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
