To the Woman Dragging Her Son Across Water Street
Tell me what he’s done, and I’ll believe you.
Last week my own daughter
laid down on the floor of a Walgreens,
tried to ...
2 poems by Sarah Carson
LAR Online, Poetry
The dead woman’s photo passed through us girls like a virus, illuminated in our cracked glass phone screens and threaded through our email chains. Her death was tinted seal sick blue, tinged darker around the corners ...
Trendsetters by Lauren E. Osborn
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
When you walk along the path, it curves slowly to the right, turning out of view only just before the horizon line. Trees line both sides, and they grow, like all trees on the plains, along a stream and out from a ...
Twixt Eden and Gethsemane: Notes on Contaminants of Concern in Wichita, Kansas by Jeromiah Taylor
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Tu le connais lecteur, ce monster dèlicat,
Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère!
—Charles Baudelaire
My own excessive delicacy, thankless humility, and various muddled activities over the past ...
The Great Secret by Moikom Zeqo translated by Wayne Miller
LAR Online, Translations
Telemetry. I woke up with a desire to use that word today but couldn't figure out how. It's nearing, oh, eleven o'clock now—PM, mind you—and I still haven't got it right. At the diner this morning I asked the server ...
Sources Say by Bradley David
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta
Review by Catherine McNulty
Publisher: Arrowsmith Press
Publication Date: October 15, 2023
ISBN: 979-8987924112
Pages: 136
Diane Mehta’s bold new collection of ...
Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta Review by Catherine McNulty
Book Reviews, LAR Online
With Darlings
Alone I am at my very best but I seem always to be followed by darlings
darlings with sharp teeth or darlings with fuzzy bodies or darlings with big
bellies or darlings with wide ...
2 poems by Adele Elise Williams
LAR Online, Poetry
Before
“I hope I’m not boring you,” he said.
“What do you mean?” I said.
“Look, that’s what it says here.”
My husband, balanced on the bottom step of a broad stairway of the detached, ...
A Frail Perishable Thing by Frances Hider
LAR Online, Nonfiction
I knew it was going to be a bad day when Eliana called. I was playing hooky, walking through a white-walled art gallery, beneath a helix of tiny red, blue, and green sports cars suspended by hundreds of thin wires. ...
Say a Prayer for the Pretender by Alli Cruz
Fiction, LAR Online
