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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
You make a list of the things you can’t afford: name brand anything, soda, bar soap, you get all your cleaning products at the Dollar Tree—which only recently started pricing products at $1.25. Still, you tell your ...
Death, and Other Things You Can’t Afford by Kendra Pintor
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines
Review by Russell Karrick
Publisher: Charlotte Lit Press
Publication Date: March 1, 2024
ISBN: 1960558072
Pages: 100
Heaven Nowhere But Here: A Review of AE Hines’ ...
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines Review by Russell Karrick
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Edward Gunawan's Introductory Translator Notes
These poems are by Hendri Yulius Wijaya, written in Bahasa Indonesia mixed with a spattering of English words and expressions. They are published as a full-length ...
Poems by Hendri Yulius Wijaya Translated by Edward Gunawan
LAR Online, Translations
At 5:05 PM, Martha grabs her purse and heads to the exit. Matt Chomsky is staring through the sliding glass doors to the patio, where very occasionally, when it isn’t too windy, Martha’s co-workers will sit at the ...
C Bad Drivers by Kim Magowan
Fiction, LAR Online
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How many brothers do you have? I did not always hesitate.
Two, I claimed as a child. And as a young adult. And as an adult with children of my own, until, I can’t say exactly when. As I gained a stepfamily, ...
Reclamation by Kristin W. Davis
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Pharaoh Arrives to Lisbon
Monday, perhaps he won’t live to be a hundred,
Tuesday, he surely won’t,
Wednesday, laughing, a fit of anger, dread,
Thursday, I let him go,
Friday, he ...
The Pharaoh Arrives to Lisbon: A Memoir in Verse by Vera Piros translated by Miriam Grunwald
LAR Online, Translations
The coroner is a crooner
who sings the lyrics of the dead written on the flesh of instruments now broken.
Laid out in a row along a raucous river:
the books and pencils that the four-eyed scholars left ...
The Coroner Is a Crooner: A Queer Exquisite Corpse by Steven Cordova
LAR Online, Poetry
