The Los Angeles Review

The Bargain The Jhelum River starts at the foothills of the Himalayas, then winds through the disputed Kashmir Valley—first the Indian-administered side, then the Pakistani—, ending 200 kilometers from the ...

2024 Flash Fiction Award Winner: Rikha Sharma Rani

Award Winners, Flash Fiction

Paper BoatsIn a wished life, my mornings opennot with the jolt of an alarmbut with the rustle of pages turning softly.In the margins of old bookswhere coffee spills are constellations,and cigarette burns stain ...

2024 Poetry Award Winner: Leonardo Chung

Award Winners, Poetry

Heuston Street and Oppenheimer’s Cottage The last lines of The Living and the Dead about snow falling on the living and the dead are painted, in pastel letters, on an electrical box in downtown Dublin; I saw them last ...

2024 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Rebecca Pyle

Award Winners, Nonfiction

The Falling Year I fell from the roof of a building on the first day of the year and didn’t stop falling until the last. It’s not true what they say—that you fall so fast you can’t breathe, or that your heart ...

2024 Short Fiction Award Winner: Kayla Chang

Award Winners, Fiction

We wrap dark, dome-shaped chocolates in foil with cold fingers. We affix a sticker with Mata’s face to the top of each wrapped chocolate. The wall-mounted air-conditioning unit blows icy air on us. The chocolate room ...

A Golden Light by Mary Katherine Carr

Fiction, LAR Online

Regression The first day after returning to my townI slept in a tree.The second day back to the moonI slept in a crater.The third day after returning to the worldI slept upon stone.My sister wasn’t living where she ...

Five poems from Animal Muerto by Sebastián Gómez Matus Translated from Spanish by Ian U Lockaby

LAR Online, Translations

Father Elegies by Stella Hayes Review by: Shannon Vare Christine Publisher: What Books Press Publication Date: October 15th, 2024 ISBN 9798990014930 Page #: 126 Separated into three distinct sections named for ...

Father Elegies by Stella Hayes Review by Shannon Vare Christine

Book Reviews, LAR Online

T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press, 2024). Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Pleaides, Epiphany, Bellingham ...

My Sister Tells Me She Doesn’t Understand Why Anyone Will Love Her by T. De Los Reyes

LAR Online, Poetry

1. I remembered someone telling me that the worst thing that could happen was running out of desires, but I just wasn’t wired like that. I was in the back of my car, on New Year’s Eve, with a boy I’d just met. He ...