An orchid is the eldest daughter of refugees, uprooted in a stranger’s land. She changes her name and tucks away dresses adorned with mirrors and beadwork. Our ancestors were silversmiths. Here, the craft is dead. ...
Repotting an Orchid by Zuhra Malik
LAR Online, Poetry
“This isn’t even the most erotic thing I’ve done,” Tobi said, her pallid face barely sticking out from under the flamingo-colored duvet. Around us, in the hotel room, were the vestiges of room service and romance ...
Touching Major’s Tooth – or – This Is the Heartbreak You Signed Up For By Jason DeYoung
Fiction, LAR Online
The Writer
She’s writing a story about her grandmother or maybe the color yellow. Why does she keep moving towards scenes from her childhood? She writes at her small desk in an attic that was never meant to be a ...
Preludes by Mary Luna
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
There is history along Ventura Boulevard, ghosts.
The gusts of the Santa Anas blow in from the northwest and cut through what was once the famed El Camino Real trading route. Thick, murderous winds, inciting higher ...
Ghost Cats by Jordan Guevara
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
Bequeath by Melora Wolff
Review by Aline Soules
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 978-0-8071-8277-2
Publication Date: September 13, 2024
Pages: 167 pages
According to Melora Wolff in a Tupelo ...
Bequeath by Melora Wolff Review by Aline Soules
Book Reviews, LAR Online
one of her big boys rips open a packet of matador spinach seeds,strews them amid a diameter of potted dirt and waits for water and sun to do their thing in the dark stairwell alcove. show me yours, water says, and sun ...
WHEN A BLACK WOMAN DIES by AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY
LAR Online, Poetry
Lumps. Always lumps. When will my wife finally learn how to make proper mashed potatoes? The butter, loads of it, roasted garlic, minced onion, and the top-secret ingredient of cottage cheese––just how mom used to ...
Potatoes Au Gratitude by Kristy Holditch
Fiction, LAR Online
Translator's Note:
At 5:00 AM on January 20, 2025, the new American regime fulfilled its first campaign promise: shutting down the appointment functionality of the CBP One smartphone app. Immediately, 300,000 asylum ...
a la plaza giordano bruno by Jorge Ríos translated by Ivy Raff
LAR Online, Translations
