

I didn't pick this fight – I wanted to be an astronaut. Cardboard and duct tape spacesuit, star maps clipped from Odyssey Magazine, exhaustive knowledge of NASA mission names and numbers – I had it all figured out. ...
Astronauts Fight Back! by A.C. Koch
LAR Online, Nonfiction

Compensating for the yaw of thyroxineI staged crossovers between Monet’s
Water Lilies. What comes back to meare epithets and rooms flowing into rooms;
there’s a prism and tuning fork at ...
Gestalt 1 by John Kinsella
LAR Online, Poetry

Mama rouses me in bed before the sun is awake. She has on her yellow knit sweater, her favorite yellow silk scarf, and tight jeans. Her finger presses against her smiling ruby lips. “Don’t wake your father,” she ...
Changin’ a Tire by Hayley Shucker
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

Turn Up the Heat by Ruth Danon
Review by Aline Soules
Publisher: Nirala Publications
ISBN: 8195781640
Publication Date: May 25, 2023
Pages: 84 pages
Deduction / Induction: A Review of Turn Up the ...
Turn Up the Heat by Ruth Danon Review by Aline Soules
Book Reviews, LAR Online

Car Fire
And so, delight and wreck teetered
in the late night, in the chassis
turned furnace, turned trembling
heartbeat of flame chasing air
for sky, run ragged from
the jet black it began ...
Two Poems by Willie James
LAR Online, Poetry

When Maro woke up the morning of that summer day, he was supposed to hurry out of bed, take a quick shower and leave for his vacation with his boyfriend of two months. They were planning to spend a week in Dahab, a ...
Maro by Essayed Taha
Fiction, LAR Online

Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee
Review by Dustin Pickering
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: October 3, 2023
ISBN: 1324064706
Pages:112
Deceptively Simple: How to Con an ...
Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee Review by Dustin Pickering
Book Reviews, LAR Online

César Dávila Andrade (Cuenca, 1918—Caracas, 1967) was an Ecuadorian poet, short fiction writer, and essayist. He was known as El Fakir for both his physical appearance and the mystical and ...