Sunday afternoon blizzard on the easternmost pointof North America—early mountain standardmeans my Momma’s at church. I can’t sleep late anymore.Instead I mope, cast hard shadows on blue & purple walls,walls ...
Poisoned by S.A. Leger
LAR Online, Poetry
There are three groups of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.
-attributed to Anacharsis, c. 6th century B.C.
My landlady, Magda, was a ventriloquist. She threw her voice with eerie precision from ...
The Living, The Dead, and Those at Sea by Cary Holladay
Fiction, LAR Online
The air tasted sticky, like mold and honey on the backs of our mouths, the day of the neighborhood yard sale. I was seven, or maybe eight, and lonely in the humid Southern summer. We’d hoped a collective yard sale ...
To Have a Body by Alice Martin
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
by Taylor Byas
Review by J.B. Stone
Publication: Soft Skull Press
Publication Date: August 22, 2023
ISBN: 9781593767419
Pages: 128
Navigating Black Joy: ...
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas Review by J.B. Stone
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Arnisha Royston is a Pushcart Nominated poet from Los Angeles. Having started in Spoken Word and moved closer toward the written page, Arnisha is drawn to poetry that is intimate and urgent, with ...
3 poems by Arnisha Royston
LAR Online, Poetry
In the winter of the second grade, Miss Rudd wrote K-E-V-I-N in giant chalk letters on the board and told us he’d be coming back that day. Miss Rudd had shiny hazel hair that flowed down to her waist; she wore billowy ...
Paper Angels by Donna Obeid
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
after K. Iver
Start when my grandparents were fifteen.
The first time. They stood at an altar.
Hand-in-. Hand. They lied. Said they were.
Of age. This time. Their parents don’t ...
Family History Rewrite by Jaz Sufi
LAR Online, Poetry
The bronze plaque in the entrance hall shows the year of construction: 1962. And some information about the architect and the co-op. No, this apartment building at the intersection of Essex and Grand, overlooking two ...
A Cheese written and translated by Lotte Brown
LAR Online, Translations
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin
Review by Gillian Perry
Publisher: Four Way Books
Publication Date: March 2023
ISBN: 978-1954245488
Pages: 96
A Window, An Open House
Jennifer ...
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin Review by Gillian Perry
Book Reviews, LAR Online
