When I see him, I’m standing outside my open garage door, watching the black olive tree tremble. Green worms hanging from its leaves. How much wind can their silk strands withstand? I’m nine. Maybe ten. The neighbor ...
Not a Dream by Caitlin McGill
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review: DM Me, Mother Darling by Alexa Doran
reviewed by Dorsey Craft
Bauhan Publishing (April 6, 2021)
ISBN-13 : 978-0872333307
“Love is forever a holding onto”: Alexa Doran’s DM ...
DM Me, Mother Darling by Alexa Doran reviewed by Dorsey Craft
Book Reviews, LAR Online
God sat down on my garden bench and sighed, putting his hands on his knees, head dipped low. I saw him out of the upstairs window and hurried down. I am not accustomed to strangers walking into the garden uninvited. Many ...
In the Garden by M. Christine Benner Dixon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I think of collapsed veins, of flumes and running water -
the redwoods funneled down some nightmare channel,
corpses carried miles from their ghost; empty saw mills
and how the dust settles so fine. I do not ...
On My Walk By the Blood Bank by McCaela Prentice
LAR Online, Poetry
Today is my favorite shift of the year: New Year’s Day. The passengers that ride my bus are mostly quiet; last night’s partygoers have found another way home. It’s just the morning route and the Oregon rain and ...
The Cadence of Rain by Erin Popelka
Fiction, LAR Online
Charles Bukowski is coming over for dinner, and I don’t know what to make him. My bookworm friends tell me to just fill my fridge with beer. I have a pretty big fridge, so I ask, are you sure I should fill ...
Reckoning with Bukowski Translated by Timea Sipos
LAR Online, Translations
1. Get everyone on the same page.
We exchanged eighty-seven emails in the first chain, sixty-two in the second, spaced about a day apart. I took the bus to my studio, made coffee, wrote, worked on a piece in ...
Five Ways to Effectively Collaborate with Teams by Stephanie Sauer
LAR Online, Nonfiction
And there was seen a marvellous brightness in the prison by the keepers.
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And there appeared an horrible dragon… [I]t is said that he swallowed her in his belly, she making the sign of the cross, and the belly ...
My Given Name by Maggie Queeney
LAR Online, Poetry
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On Fridays, the government workers detonate the ordnance they dig up during the week. The sound rumbles like thunder across the island. Out on the old Navy site, the brambles and vines overtake the fences, ...
A Wilderness Unfolding by Carolyn Megan
LAR Online, Nonfiction
