It started and then it couldn’t be stopped, them calling you Prof, though every now and then you’d be summoned Beth by the ones who seemed older than the rest, more secure in the democracy of learning, more prone to ...
Syllabus by Beth Kephart
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I woke from a dream today in which I finished the essay I started yesterday. The kind of finishing that is brilliant in the dream, slightly less brilliant when you wake up. Twisty and nonsensical by the time you finish ...
Shed Fall by Deb Werrlein
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Metropolis Notes“A message must arrive at its destination. A letter will have an end unknown to its sender. Like glass bottles with notes for an unknown shore, they eventually sink ...
The Metropolis by Kevin Callaway
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Sexing the Chickens
It is difficult to tell whether a baby chick is male or female. Even today, computers can’t do it without human help. An experienced “sexer” divides the chicks, as hens are needed to lay ...
Chickens by Lori J. Williams
LAR Online, Nonfiction
1979’s number one Billboard hit was The Knack’s “My Sharona,” written by a 25 year old obsessed with a 17 year old high school student. She had a boyfriend and wasn’t interested, but the man persisted and ...
Before Me: The Case for My Mother’s Abortion by Danielle DeTiberus
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The winter after stayed cold longer than usual even for Minnesota. Snow dressed the skeleton trees but scantily because mounds crowded the streets, the sidewalks, all the places I tried to move forward in. I did yoga in ...
Arrangements by Amy Bohlman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The theme for our junior year English class that week was “man alone.” (It was 1963; the term “man” included women.)
Among other stories, Mr. Quinlan had assigned Leonid Andreyev’s “The Little Angel,” a ...
The Only Child at the Party by Anthony Mohr
LAR Online, Nonfiction
We had nowhere to go, no money, my mother and her second husband had no jobs and no prospects, we had fled cross country after essentially wrecking a house through sheer hillbillyism and had stopped paying on it and had ...
Epiphany No. 3 By Patrick Cole
LAR Online, Nonfiction
GENESIS • One hundred years ago, the most fearsome cultural critic in America was Edmund Wilson. Writing in 1931, Wilson noted in an essay that even though the Great Depression ravaged the country, “Americans still ...
Still Unsettled in the Promised Land by Thomas Larson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
