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
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Sarah Cannon
I see: everything. Fima’s fist, French fries jutting between tattooed fingers. ...
Knuckleball by Katie Wisel
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by S. Tremaine Nelson
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
Emily Books, March 2020.
$16.95; 208 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-56689-566-8
Brooklyn-based author Hilary Leichter has published an unusual debut novel called ...
Review: Temporary by Hilary Leichter
Book Reviews, LAR Online
“The mother octopus lives in the cave for up to seven months as the curtain of eggs develops…. She doesn’t eat during this time and usually dies shortly after the young hatch.[1]”
It’s a slow, steady ...
The mother by Lindsay Stewart
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Ron Koertge
Letters From the Desk of President Jefferson
June 19th, 1804
Mister Barlow,
I hope ...
To My Dear Friend, Joel Barlow by Chavonn Shen
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online