Bright Clutter
Because I read about space junk and glimpsed that image
of a Tesla, mannequin at the wheel as it shot past Mars,
today I see my nephew floating in the ocean. He travels
as molecules ...
Bright Clutter by Susan Cohen
LAR Online, Poetry
A good run it’s been so far, Julian thinks, this thing between him and Sammie – nights out while ignoring her husband’s calls, trysts in hotel rooms purchased merely for the self-aware absurdity. The brief escape ...
Salsa by Jason Peck
Fiction, LAR Online
Line of Vision
Translation by: Sue Vickerman
Face it, Irene Mattasch, she told herself: your day is over. Nowadays, Arnold Mattasch’s days were all that mattered. These had a start, a midpoint, and an ...
Line of Vision Translated by Sue Vickerman
LAR Online, Translations
On a morning in October whose most distinguishing trait may be how closely it resembles so many other mornings during this repetitive yet unprecedented time when I’m newly a mother, I’m walking down one of the quiet ...
In Confinement by Courtney Chatellier
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Pastoral
What to say of this era, which carries a blade in the pouch
of its cheek? RIP last year’s cactus. I still douse it in blue pixels
of Miracle Gro and run my thumb like a lover
under the ...
Pastoral & Palinode by Tyler Mills
LAR Online, Poetry
I remember the night Alex Irby knocked on my bedroom window. It was the summer of ’99 and I was 16. The cicadas were leaving their husks everywhere and wouldn’t shut up. My father had moved out the year before and we ...
Cicadas by Ted McLoof
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Thomas Sorensen
ISBN: 978-1-951628-02-4
124 pages
Release Date: February 17, 2020
Publisher: Civil Coping Mechanisms
Kafka died too young, and The Depression, ...
Review: The Depression by Mathias Svalina and Jon Pack
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Second runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
I covered my eyes. I hid in the circular clothing racks. I trimmed off a small portion ...
ways to disappear by Tarah Knaresboro
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Awake
This morning I bramble toward waking—
alarm alarm alarm snarling my dreams like little girls
around a pile of marbles arguing quitsies,
no quitsies. This morning I don’t know. This morning
I ...
Awake by Kerrin McCadden
LAR Online, Poetry
