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                Portrait of Myself as Watson, my Great Grandmother, Sherlock Holmes by Michelle Bitting
LAR Online, Poetry
 
                
                
                    
We’re sitting in his car listening to music and for a second I think he might kiss me. He offered to drive me home after work because he says I shouldn't be taking the train at night. I tell him I'm a strong girl and ...
                
                
                Sometime in the Fall by Alexa Joyce
Fiction, LAR Online
 
                
                
                    
this story doesn’t end well
he dies 
trampled 
by a dappled grey horse
this story makes noise
hooves blood
now run
such beauty
that summer
blue forget-me-nots 
you ...
                
                
                Poems by Tania Langlais Translated by Jessica Cuello
LAR Online, Translations
 
                
                
                    
You were placed like wings are placed 
as if they’ll never be needed to leave with 
but then you were born 
and each time I unwrap your diaper 
I consider every ...
                
                
                Mother Nothing by Elizabeth Metzger
LAR Online, Poetry
 
                
                
                    
Superheroes, ghosts, and members of The Beatles were buzzed on birthday cake and chocolate bars. The kindergartners pounded their little fists on the dining room table, eager to paint pumpkins, the final activity of ...
                
                
                You Monster by Kate Faigen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
 
                
                
                    
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 
Review by Deborah Williams
Pub date: 18 Jan 2022
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0451480589
416 pages 
An iridescent Möbius-strip ...
                
                
                Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor Review by Deborah Williams
Book Reviews, LAR Online
 
                
                
                    
Sundays were always the green
of aquarium glass, the smell
of waxed duck pinching the house.
The television splintering 
the room like the dry season;
outside, dogs’ perpetual barking.
My ...
                
                
                KLANG, 2003 by Lyn Li Che
LAR Online, Poetry
 
                
                
                    
Daniel Gray’s wife Corrie didn’t belong in our town. We all knew that on the day Dan brought her home from the city.
It wasn’t just the colors she wore. We Allensville wives wore plain waists and dark skirts to ...
                
                
                Coreopsis by Kris Faatz
Fiction, LAR Online
 
                
                
                    
The Surviving Twin: A Memoir of Asperger’s, Anorexia, and Loss 
by Diana Lockwood
Review by Mariam Ahmed
ISBN: 9781476681900
Published by McFarland & Company
Publication Date: ...
                
                
                

 
                                        
            