I loved my mother. She bought me an alarm clock for my twelfth birthday because I was always late to school, slow to wake under her gentle hands. She smelled of powdery makeup and sweet perfume. Her steps made no sound ...
Sugar by Annabelle Taghinia
Fiction, LAR Online
Three weeks ago, something small began scratching inside me. A dry cough: brief, harmless at first. Then came the itch, like the brush of a wing beneath my ribs.
No fever. No pain. Just the constant feeling that my ...
WINGS BEHIND THE WALLS, Written and Translated by Gustavo Vázquez-Lozano
LAR Online, Translations
Some nights I sense the life I led twelve years ago is ongoing, just elsewhere. In that reality, my barber pumps waves into my deadass flat hair twice a year and there’s a washer and dryer in my unit and my mom calls ...
Laundralaxy by Katy Storch
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
On the way home from my Saturday Alanon meeting, I realize it’s my father’s sobriety anniversary. Fifty years. Should I call him? He’s on a ranch somewhere south of Austin with eight of his college buddies, and I ...
Home Team by Christie Tate
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Alice, or the Wild Girl by Michael Robert Liska
Reviewer: Kazuo Robinson
Publisher: Heresy Press
Publication Date: September 9, 2025
ISBN: 9781949846720
Pages: 408
“Never love a wild thing,” Holly Golightly ...
Alice, or the Wild Girl by Michael Robert Liska Reviewed by Kazuo Robinson
Book Reviews, LAR Online
For Brooklyn
1.We stand in frontof the sink asbrush afterperfect brushshe fixes my hair I watchstrands fall herhands smoothingan endless process ofchecking rechecking– Does this hurt?I am so still as tonot ...
This Is How A Desert Moves by Rosalynn Blaisdell
LAR Online, Poetry
Phobia – excerpt
Back in the 70s, my dad and the neighborhood kids spent most of their summers on the banks of the creek. They had no allowances to spend on even those few opportunities that a provincial city offered ...
Fóbia by Szöllősi Mátyás Translated by Joe Váradi
LAR Online, Translations
after Picasso’s sketch of Don Quixote (1955)There is a whole romantic tradition of failingto put this man and his moth-eaten mindin theatres. Welles had 300,000 feet of footage when he succumbed to a coronary; ...
Errant Knight by Anthony Borruso
LAR Online, Poetry
Adele Voyria (AV) is a Scottish-based author, poet, and screenwriter. They have been shortlisted for the Grierson Verse Prize and the ...
Ouroboros by Adele Voyria
Fiction, LAR Online
