I used to date this girl who would put on sunscreen every night before bed. At first I thought it was just lotion, but the smell was unmistakable, that slightly chemical, almost-sand almost-chlorine scent, and the ...
Sunscreen by Erini Sappho Katopodis
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The sun’s rays slip through the gaps in the gate, and your children ask for a snack to hold off hunger until you finally decide to leave the pool behind. Fruit snacks, ritz crackers, goldfish. A boy at a table next to ...
The Fourth Definition of Love by Kelly Ann Jacobson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
SIN DOCUMENTOS
Of God, we only understood His wrath, and still, we spoke about Him
as if He were an older brother. Another one of us: brown and buzzed cut,
running into the ditch, learning about the ...
2 poems by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
LAR Online, Poetry
This was back when I was dating Ziggy, when I didn’t know any better, about anything. He had this leather jacket—vintage, according to him, and handmade from the most venerable bull on his grandfather’s ...
Mystery Men by Katie Cortese
Fiction, LAR Online
Blue Physics by Mary Lou Buschi
Review by Zainab Omaki
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review Books
Publication Date: February 7, 2024
ISBN: 9781957755380
Pages: 78
Mary Lou Buschi’s third full-length ...
Blue Physics by Mary Lou Buschi Review by Zainab Omaki
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winter
Meanwhile, what had been green went gray
and became a concept from a manual on keeping orchards.
Outside the window, the civilization of reason is in uneventful bloom. The experts
in weather are ...
Poems from “Kameraden” by Krzysztof Jaworski translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff
LAR Online, Translations
Mother is weaving a net on the ceiling made of sailors’ rope. She braids, knots, and untangles, muttering instructions from a maritime book she found in Granddaddy’s collection. It will be sturdy and beautiful, she ...
Water by Alison Jean Kinney
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I.
I have unfinished business with the penis.
Don’t we all? We live in a phallocentric world (yes, yes, cultural differences aside) that is obsessed with, privileges, worships, and fears (losing) the penis. This ...
Unfinished Business by Gil Z. Hochberg
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Under the Florida sun’s stern gaze,
parents too busy
fighting to watch us in the yard,
my brother and I hunt
for lizards in the loquat trees
brimming with mini-suns,
chase them skittering ...
Young Lizard Kings by Ariel Francisco
LAR Online, Poetry
