On a morning in October whose most distinguishing trait may be how closely it resembles so many other mornings during this repetitive yet unprecedented time when I’m newly a mother, I’m walking down one of the quiet ...
In Confinement by Courtney Chatellier
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Pastoral
What to say of this era, which carries a blade in the pouch
of its cheek? RIP last year’s cactus. I still douse it in blue pixels
of Miracle Gro and run my thumb like a lover
under the ...
Pastoral & Palinode by Tyler Mills
LAR Online, Poetry
I remember the night Alex Irby knocked on my bedroom window. It was the summer of ’99 and I was 16. The cicadas were leaving their husks everywhere and wouldn’t shut up. My father had moved out the year before and we ...
Cicadas by Ted McLoof
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Thomas Sorensen
ISBN: 978-1-951628-02-4
124 pages
Release Date: February 17, 2020
Publisher: Civil Coping Mechanisms
Kafka died too young, and The Depression, ...
Review: The Depression by Mathias Svalina and Jon Pack
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Second runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
I covered my eyes. I hid in the circular clothing racks. I trimmed off a small portion ...
ways to disappear by Tarah Knaresboro
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Awake
This morning I bramble toward waking—
alarm alarm alarm snarling my dreams like little girls
around a pile of marbles arguing quitsies,
no quitsies. This morning I don’t know. This morning
I ...
Awake by Kerrin McCadden
LAR Online, Poetry
Fiona’s eyes were moons when she came out of the bathroom. “I spent sixty years in there,” she said, and normally this would be a joke, a ha ha what’d you do in there, get ready for the Oscars? kind of thing, but ...
Haunt by Nicole VanderLinden
Fiction, LAR Online
translated from the Romanian by Marius Surleac and Marc Vincenz
Leave the birds
hidden among the cracks
in the brick wall
when day retreats
under the gaslight of first stars
and cannot return;
through its ...
Two Poems by Ion Monoran
LAR Online, Translations
“The toilet is in the bedroom,” I said. “And I’m not talking en suite, I’m talking right there, next to your pillow.”
This was last summer, when I was googling places to rent in Palo Alto for my upcoming ...
Hotel Tennessee by Helena de Bres
LAR Online, Nonfiction
