The day began before sunrise. Hong Insu woke to a house so dark and quiet it seemed submerged under water. He felt a presence in the room: a fragment of his mother’s unhappiness had slipped in through the wall and was ...
Have a Nice Day by Sera Yu
Fiction, LAR Online
The War in the Bully Boss
.........................................for my father
......................................................As if the first day at McDonald’s isn’t like burning grease ...
Collection by Dennis Etzel Jr.
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Saga Boy, a heart-warming memoir by Antonio Michael Downing, is a story of the impact of unaddressed generational trauma on a family. In four acts and an epilogue, Downing chronicles his life from his childhood in ...
Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing Review by Carol Mitchell
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Overnight, the land traded faces, brownstone roofs
newly suffocated in snow, and with nothing between
us but an open window, she and I sat, smoking,
shivering like a punishment, each with one hand out ...
Advance by Katherine Fallon
LAR Online, Poetry
She was taking me to my first drum circle. Golden Gate Park. Overcast July. The promise of barefoot hippies and music and weed and love, all things I desperately needed. The walk down Fulton would take a half hour, but ...
Fulton Street By Eric Scot Tryon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer is a book everyone should read. Kati Standefer has long QT syndrome, and her doctor decides that she needs the surgical implant ...
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer Review by Dr. Kate Gale
Book Reviews, LAR Online
As the young couple enter the rickety Sol-Ventas tram, the air fills with an exotic aroma, arousing the curiosity of a nun, the only other passenger on board.
She ...
On the Tram by Luisa Carnés Translated by Robin Munby
LAR Online, Translations
They came in sputtering cars,
..................kicking the dirt trail to town,
....................................tossing empty Menthol boxes
in tall grass. They came
..................with gravel in ...
The Boys From Homer City by Clare Welsh
LAR Online, Poetry
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin
Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021
Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary
Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
In the beginning, a garden was the theater and launchpad for ...
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
Book Reviews, LAR Online
