Can You See Me?
An Essay on Disguise and Reinvention
Chameleons have always fascinated me—how they vanish into their surrounding, flickering between a catalogue of selves. They are one of nature’s most magical ...
Can You See Me? by Abbigail N. Rosewood
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Pillows used to be a big part of my life. That sounds too small, even now, when I no longer listen to them, when the old MP3s sit buried in an external hard drive I haven’t touched in years. Back then—high school ...
Like a Love Song by E.P. Tuazon
LAR Online, Nonfiction
There is history along Ventura Boulevard, ghosts.
The gusts of the Santa Anas blow in from the northwest and cut through what was once the famed El Camino Real trading route. Thick, murderous winds, inciting higher ...
Ghost Cats by Jordan Guevara
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
I. Boothbay
I contemplate my bad habits as I gaze over a harbor in Maine at a glowing cathedral, floating on the third day of a booze high and letting the scarce appearance of the sun turn me soppy. I figure Jesus ...
I Never Met A Man Who Didn’t Turn Mean About His Sleep by Emily DeYoung
LAR Online, Nonfiction
“You are, you know, you were the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life.”
—Renata Adler, Pitch ...
White Space by Robin Lippincott
LAR Online, Nonfiction
“What are you?”
A question, posed by strangers, that has followed me for as long as I can remember. On subways, in classrooms, on the street. People only mean to ask about my ethnic makeup, but to use those ...
“What Are You, and Where is Burma?” by Juliet Way-Henthorne
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I have a pebble in my right nipple. Or a pebble-size something. I found it one night lying in bed, and as I rolled it around under one finger to determine the size, I went into auto defense: a little cyst, ...
Waiting by Caroline Sutton
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Over Thanksgiving, my mother tells me that wearing black casts illusions. At first, I hear that it makes one’s body look dimmer. Outside, the daylight fades from everywhere at once. The specific music of a Northern ...
Self Portrait as Candle Song by Cole Pragides
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I’m suspended in the chair, trapped in a staring contest with my own reflection. Joey moves around me with wordless precision, scissors glinting under fluorescent lights. I prefer the silent ones—stylists who treat ...
The Torture Seat by Chris Wu
LAR Online, Nonfiction
