The Failed Fantasy Author sits outside a Starbucks drinking coffee as he types another paragraph about the king of the elves. This is his fifth attempt at writing a fantasy novel and his fourth attempt where the ...
Failed Fantasy Author by James Reinebold
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Have you ever gotten younger as you’ve gotten older? Maybe just on and off. Or maybe a little at a time and more and more. Used to be, I wondered about this. Not anymore. I can think of a famous poet and how it was ...
It’s Not That, It’s Never That by Mary Ann Samyn
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A Picture
by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop
translated by Leo Shtutin
I chanced to purchase, at a junk shop, a remarkable picture—the work of an old master—and ordered for it a fine heavy boxwood frame. The ...
A Picture by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop translated by Leo Shtutin
LAR Online, Translations
And when no one is looking
I will spin my Ferris-wheel-body
into a patch of late autumn leaves,
pretend I am a kaleidoscope
in what I can only describe
as a soul walk,
my neurons navigating
how ...
Cartwheel by January Gill O’Neil
LAR Online, Poetry
Bergamo
Italy - 18th March 2020
How lonely sits the city once
so full of people. The princess,
now turned slave, is endlessly weeping.
The doors are shut, the windows stand ajar;
somewhere a radio's playing ...
Poems by Immanuel Mifsud Translated by Ruth Ward
LAR Online, Translations
My Hollywood
By Boris Dralyuk
Paul Dry Books, $16.95
The Unrecovered River
Review By David Mason
The vast metropolitan area we call “Los Angeles” is really many cities, each with its own character, ...
My Hollywood by Boris Dralyuk Review by David Mason
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Just ten days old, he should still be swaddled
in the amniotic waters of my womb.
Today is our first time to hold and be held.
While the nurse unbundles him from his cocoon,
he wiggles and yawns as ...
Kangaroo Care by Amy Fleury
LAR Online, Poetry
The day I was expected at Missy Cadwell’s, a woman across town left her screen door open and got mauled to death in her own living room.
Domesticated, Missy always said about the bears, overly domesticated.
I ...
To Stop the Head from Running Wild by Kieran Mundy
Fiction, LAR Online
The poet hovered like Christ on a raging sea. The applause thanked him for his honest timbre, his story and blood.
A trail of tears began gathering underneath the claps somewhere in the balcony, on the far ...
The Ovation by Morgan Mann Willis
LAR Online, Nonfiction
