Perched on a branch, I flapped my wings and cawed. One by one, the bird-watchers swung their binoculars toward me, watching. What did they see? Big Bird. To make rent, I used to dress up as Big Bird. You know, lives on ...
The Pretend Big Bird by Will Musgrove
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Blood Lines by Ann Bookman
Review by David Orr
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Publication Date: February 26, 2022
ISBN: 1639800697
Pages: 114
Ann Bookman is a poet, anthropologist, and ...
Blood Lines by Ann Bookman Review by David Orr
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Excerpt from Dead Women by Anna Terék Translated from Hungarian by Kristen Herbert
Jelena – Part II
Anna Terék was born in 1984 in Bačka Topola, former Yugoslavia. Her ...
Excerpt by Anna Terék Translated by Kristen Herbert
LAR Online, Translations
Jerry Xiao, a high-school senior from Collierville, Tennessee, is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio and the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. His writing has been published in Crab Creek Review, ...
Elegy in an Orchid’s Soil by Jerry Xiao
LAR Online, Poetry
Marrah laid next to Nina in the strip of grass between their houses, fingers interlaced behind her head. It was the summer after senior year of high school, still mid-June, and the days were elastic in those months ...
Nina: A short story by Natalie Marsh
Fiction, LAR Online
I was born in the year of Roe vs. Wade. Watergate and Wounded Knee, Skylab, Secretariat, Billie Jean King, the last US troops out of Vietnam, and I was born. Roe and I turned twenty-one in 1994, the year the Magellan ...
Six Hundred Twenty-Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-Eight by Youna Kwak
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Paradise Is Jagged by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Review by Anders Carlson-Wee
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Publication Date: February 1, 2023
ISBN: 1947896601
Pages: 116
A Hopeful Quarrel
In vivifying ...
Paradise Is Jagged by Ann Fisher-Wirth Review by Anders Carlson-Wee
Book Reviews, LAR Online
August ends; the world outside dissolves
in warm rain. Dead flies float in pools
of gold, the tang of soap and vinegar rising
sharply in the heat. Aren’t we done with all this yet,
the peaches ...
Blue Hour by Hannah Hirsh
LAR Online, Poetry
You are an orange tree a woman planted many years ago. But first, before that, you are only a tiny seed she lays softly into the cradle of earth and loam she dug for you in her own backyard. While you sleep dormant, she ...
The Orange Tree by Danielle Sherman
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
