Aspen leaves flutter to the still-green grass as our youngest child, Teddy, rambles through the yard, whacking the tree’s silvery trunk and mushrooms, sprung after a rare Wyoming rain, and our raspberry bushes, their ...
Yellow by Anemone Beaulier
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A few months after I acknowledged my time to bear children was almost up, my sister and her husband announced their pregnancy. As we stood in her Los Feliz dining room, my parents and I hugged twenty-seven-year-old Tessa ...
My Supporting Role as a Childless Mother of Two by Chelsey Drysdale
LAR Online, Nonfiction
As an exercise in mind over matter and decoupling fear from fervor, I shaved my head right after I finished another four months of grotesque chemo as an attempt to even the playing field. Did you know that there’s ...
Regrowth by Judith Cooper
LAR Online, Nonfiction
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
