My daughter steps on the ice in my dad’s driveway and it cracks. She sounds like my oma when she says oh, stretched out and blue wide-eyes.
“Mama, watch,” she says.
I tell her to hurry because ...
Time & Sound by Mary Thorson
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The theme for our junior year English class that week was “man alone.” (It was 1963; the term “man” included women.)
Among other stories, Mr. Quinlan had assigned Leonid Andreyev’s “The Little Angel,” a ...
The Only Child at the Party by Anthony Mohr
LAR Online, Nonfiction
How awkward that nothing significant changes.
My lover lifts my shirt with every kindness
I’ve typically found inconsequential to sex.
The Texas breeze holds its hands in my face, says
Know how to name ...
If You Have a Minute to Spare, Tell Me Everything You Know by Gabrielle Grace Hogan
LAR Online, Poetry
The boys turned nine next week and the nanny asked her if she was solid on the gluten free chocolate cupcakes, or did she think they should get a half dozen of the vanilla ones as well. Her nanny was a small woman, with ...
The Deer by Andrea Harper
Fiction, LAR Online
But Now Am Found by Patricia Horvath
Review by Allison Kornet
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Publication Date: February 24, 2023
ISBN: 162557035X
Page Count: 256
At the end of “But Now Am ...
Book by Patricia Horvath Review by Allison Kornet
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Never Mind, I’ll Get It Eventually
By Johanna Bodor
Excerpt Translated from the Hungarian by Jozefina Komporaly
One autumn evening in 1982, my parents spelled out what they had been mulling over for ...
Never Mind, I’ll Get It Eventually (Excerpt) By Johanna Bodor Translated By Jozefina Komporaly
LAR Online, Translations
Kathleen McGookey’s fourth book, Instructions for My Imposter, is now out from Press 53. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, December, Field, Glassworks, Miramar, Ploughshares, Prairie ...
How to Disappear by Kathleen McGookey
LAR Online, Poetry
Once Upon a Time,
a fisherman found a dog floating in a box at sea. The fisherman pulled the animal onto the boat and gave it some water and a bologna sandwich. A short time later the fisherman found another ...
A Morsel of Light by Shabnam Piryaei
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We had nowhere to go, no money, my mother and her second husband had no jobs and no prospects, we had fled cross country after essentially wrecking a house through sheer hillbillyism and had stopped paying on it and had ...
Epiphany No. 3 By Patrick Cole
LAR Online, Nonfiction
