Nocturne
The coyotes create an auditory fence | two rowdy boys sound like a pack and some beings are happy | tonight. What scent do they catch? | Their howls echo | echo — yowls | this is their territory. It must have ...
2 Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
LAR Online, Poetry
Monday, May 6, 2019
A gown with a train, striped with green, white, and black squeezes my ribs. I’m trying my best not to sneeze or tear up, but the odor emanating from the red body paint on my face and ...
Camp by Kat Abdallah
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Boyfriend Perspective by Michael Chang
Review by Dustin Pearson
ISBN-13: 9780578985626
Publisher: Really Serious Literature
Publication date: 09/09/2021
Pages: 138
In short, Michael ...
Boyfriend Perspective by Michael Chang Review by Dustin Pearson
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Sister
After Catherine Pond
What if August never ended.
What if August never began.
What if wild mushrooms grew large as oaks in my backyard
...............and the moon a small white heart in the ...
2 Poems by Esther Sun
LAR Online, Poetry
Catalog
The first counselor arrives, slipping out of a dark winter coat. He’s dressed in a dark suit and tie, white shirt starched and stiff. The rest of us arrive, the girls I grew up with, playing jump ...
2021 LAR Short Fiction Award Winner: Marilyn Abildskov
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Mammy Mary Says
Your Best Friend and you are on your way to her house. It’s a bit cold and you’re both wearing earmuffs. She lives in the Council Estate closest to your Primary School. You do think ...
2021 LAR Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Lauren Foley
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Eight Arms to Hold You
The first time you asked me to take off my shirt over the internet, I did so and a pea-sized spider fell out. I was surprised, but also not. Summer brings them out in abundance, ...
2021 LAR Flash Fiction Award Winner: Leanne Dunic
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Devotional
after covid
I prepare my heart for
you. I unlash my ankles
from my bone, interlace
spine and rib. The same magic
that found you, replaced
you. Willow reeds, green
shoots ...
2021 LAR Poetry Award Winner: Nellie Le Beau
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
The sun had set an hour prior, and the motion detector Michael was supposed to fix two weeks ago still didn’t work. After nearly tripping over the wooden step on their porch, Jenna spent a minute unsuccessfully ...
Liar by Ryan Ritchie
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
