My father pushes the tips of his fingers to the zippered scar along his sternum. Striking a superman pose, he angles his body side to side. I pause in the hall on the way to my room. “Does it bother you?” I ...
Amnesia Princess as Punchline by Steffi Sin
LAR Online, Nonfiction
for her sister, a surgeon during this pandemic
I once asked you what it was like to watch people die. We were on our way to drink flights of wine. You described a man’s head filling with fluid until it was the ...
You Work with Death by Maria T. Allocco
LAR Online, Nonfiction
In the latest Trump blunder, he says we should all be back in church by Easter, which comes early this year, April 12. This makes me remember an Easter a few years ago, my six grandnephews in straw hats and shirts with ...
One Day in the Pandemic: March 25, 2020 by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
LAR Online, Nonfiction
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It's not that I wanted to make her cry. It's just that I could stand it before. My sister and I had terrible fights. They started as soon as she was old enough to talk. As soon as I was old enough to hit. The ...
Convalescence Triptych by Diana Cejas
LAR Online, Nonfiction
the baby discovers her hands at around six to eight weeks
the Japanese word for baby /akachan/ contains the word for red /aka/
archaic prints of palms coated in red paint and pressed against cave walls
the baby ...
The Discovery of Hands by Jessica Goodfellow
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Eight Years Later to the Day
Ice. Blue. Dark sky. Well below zero. A blizzard across the staircase. The wooden steps were old and worn slippery. Red PJs blue snow boots and dad’s red dressing gown thick and warm. The ...
Two Flash Essays by Sarah Leamy
LAR Online, Nonfiction
When the electrical pole fell in the alley, knocking out the power on our block, Tony and I knew there was nothing to do but sit on the porch and wait. I poured us each a little whiskey over ice and we sat in teal ...
In the Apocalypse by Liz Shulman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
When Portrait of a Lady on Fire hit Hulu about month into the quarantine, lesbians across the country rejoiced. Due to its limited availability prior to this particular streaming service, many of us hadn’t seen it yet. ...
Portrait of a Lady in Quarantine by Margaret Speer
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I think I make up for a lack of strength and toughness with above-average situational awareness, a skill I developed in response to my unrelenting fear of everyone and everything around me. It wasn’t until one of my ...
One-Time Bag Model by Christian Harrington
LAR Online, Nonfiction
