I
...It was not her first try. Last time black eye with
...meth, purple stain down her cheek. July. Now
...I speed through the Carolinas on cruise control
...to Delerium. November. Near Rocky Mount
...or ...
I Am Red as a Heart, She Said, But My Soul Is Inedible by Maureen Seaton
LAR Online, Poetry
The Swallows
I prefer a man with an appetite. My second husband was always putting things into his mouth. Grass. Pennies. Baklava. When visiting friends he never failed to lick their wallpaper. It was repulsive, but ...
Three Stories by Ryan Habermeyer
Fiction, LAR Online
Review by by Noel Quiñones
Tracing the Horse
Diana Marie Delgado
BOA Editions, September 2019.
$17.00; 112 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-942683-87-2
In Diana Marie Delgado’s debut collection Tracing the Horse (BOA ...
Review: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado
Book Reviews, LAR Online
It’s true I can’t remember ever being hugged by my mother,
but I do recall being led by my dad to her bedside
every morning near the end. My sister and I stood there
in our backpacks and jumpers, lined up as if ...
Morning Sickness by Jessica Tanck
LAR Online, Poetry
By age forty-five my vertebrae were in full revolt. The revolt sent continual shocks of pain through my right shoulder and up my neck. I'd endured years of MRI's, CT-SCANS, oral medications, steroid injections, and ...
What I Could Not Fix in Myself by Melissa Lewis-Ackerman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Erica Charis-Molling
Reconstructions
Bradley Trumpfheller
Sibling Rivalry Press, January 2020.
$12.00; 51 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-943977-72-7
In his book, Poetry as Survival, Gregory Orr writes, ...
Review: Reconstructions by Bradley Trumpfheller
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Dear Creature,
After everyone forgot the summer without a summer
I still had the ice indelible
and your parceled face
shifting in visible heat.
I was making sentences for dear life.
And also money. I would ...
Dear Creature by Jessica Cuello
LAR Online, Poetry
Eulogy I. Before the Funeral, Practicing with Microphone
Our father. Six wives. Four kids. Twelve jobs. Many hobbies. How to sum that all up. Here goes.
He loved to fish. He used to line us kids up, tie nets to our ...
Horsing Around in Church by Kathy Anderson
Fiction, LAR Online
"Evil is the absence of empathy" –
said Captain Gilbert,
Army psychologist
at the Nuremberg trials.
“It a genuine incapacity to feel."
I want you to know:
one tree cannot make it rain.
But a forest can make ...
Dead Fish at the Supermarket by Tom Paine
LAR Online, Poetry
