

Sundays were always the green
of aquarium glass, the smell
of waxed duck pinching the house.
The television splintering
the room like the dry season;
outside, dogs’ perpetual barking.
My ...
KLANG, 2003 by Lyn Li Che
LAR Online, Poetry

Daniel Gray’s wife Corrie didn’t belong in our town. We all knew that on the day Dan brought her home from the city.
It wasn’t just the colors she wore. We Allensville wives wore plain waists and dark skirts to ...
Coreopsis by Kris Faatz
Fiction, LAR Online

The Surviving Twin: A Memoir of Asperger’s, Anorexia, and Loss
by Diana Lockwood
Review by Mariam Ahmed
ISBN: 9781476681900
Published by McFarland & Company
Publication Date: ...
Survival & Beyond: “The Surviving Twin: A Memoir of Asperger’s, Anorexia, and Loss” by Diana Lockwood Review by Mariam Ahmed
Book Reviews, LAR Online

Pompeii
I see you playing immersed in the light,
I hear the melody.
With that note began the destruction of Pompeii,
that tierce the rumble of the lithospheric plates,
with that chord began the ...
Poems by Josef Kučera Translated by Joshua Mensch
LAR Online, Translations

In our first trimester we took vitamins and drank milk. In our second, we felt for movements and carried home ultrasounds. When asked what we wanted, boy or girl, we resorted to the obvious—"as long as they're ...
What We Didn’t Know by Sharon Gusky
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

They did not know—the first
flowers in space, planted by a hand
years removed from another, already
the bones losing mass, density
another word for dependent,
the way oblong seeds in ...
Zinnias by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
LAR Online, Poetry

This is a story about Saeed, which my father told my mother before they’d even considered bringing me into the world, and my mother told me one day when I was trying to heat a pita on the stove. To be precise, Baba ...
Saeed by Amir Sommer translated by Jessica Cohen
Fiction, LAR Online

The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero
Translated by Robin Myers
Review by Brent Ameneyro
ISBN: 978-1-945720-26-0
Paperback
140 pp
Publication Date: May 10, 2022
Cardboard House ...
The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero Review by Brent Ameneyro
Book Reviews, LAR Online

Excerpt from Battle by Aurélie William Levaux
Editions Cambourakis (2019)
Translated from the French by Johanna McCalmont
The bathtub is huge, you could easily fit four people in it, no, I’m ...