I was terrible at the claw machine. It was why I practiced five times a week for three-hour intervals at nearly fifteen reps per hour. Each rep only cost 1,o00 won, but it was 4,500 for a pack of cigarettes and 2,000 for ...
The Claw Machine by Hyo Jin Ha
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Both my grandparents died very young.
My mother thinks it’s because my grandfather would chain smoke in the greenhouse, creating a literal greenhouse effect where my grandmother constantly took in the secondhand ...
Practicing Dying by Rebecca Suzuki
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney
Reviewed by Hally Rae Winters
Publisher: Clash Books
Publication Date: January 7, 2025
ISBN: 9781960988362
Pages: 140
Horse Girl Fever is a tight fourteen-story collection by ...
Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney Reviewed by Hally Rae Winters
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The scab of the earth is a wide museum.I roam around in gigantic clothes,Striving to be unrecognizable.To give consequence to the peril of my inner world.I’m becoming a circle forever to fit you here.A closed system, ...
Strip Mall by Haley Joy Harris
LAR Online, Poetry
Cecile asks Frederic how he’d kill her if he had to and he doesn’t hesitate to answer. They’re in the kitchen, which opens onto the living room, and it all belongs to her. She pays the rent, and he stays there ...
Mercy by Cerissa DiValentino
Fiction, LAR Online
MusicA frantic awakening from every thought,Repeatedly and cruel, as if fate;In a dark night’s exuberant waters,A ship catches fire, an angel reaches out.Who are those, bathing in this dark fountainAs if resurrected ...
Three Poems by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Translated by Aysel K. Basci
LAR Online, Translations
Afternoon at Miss Allyger’s store, light comes through the crosses on the dossals, runs onto the folk-art trinkets and postcards of the mountains, which Lavina restocks from a woven bin. It is her seventeenth birthday, ...
Goodbye to the Flowers by Carolynn Mireault
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Pendulum Motion / The octopus as a word infiltrates the language as ocean… The octopus as a word infiltrates the language as ocean,filling the space left by the outflowing water; language claimsthe octopus, opening up ...
Three Poems by Péter Závada Translated by Mark Baczoni and Anna Bentley
LAR Online, Translations
How to Love a Black Hole by Rebecca Fishow
Review by Wes Blake
Publisher: Conium Press
Publication Date: March 4, 2025 (Limited Edition Hardcover)
October 7, 2025 (General Release Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-942387-22-0 ...
How to Love a Black Hole by Rebecca Fishow Review by Wes Blake
Book Reviews, LAR Online
