We live at the foot of Mount Monkshood, where our town ends and the wild land rises sharply beyond. Our backyard looks out onto the mountain, which is a problem, because the mountain watches us.
Monkshood lures ...
Dark Watchers by Jane Yager
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
water will come again
if you can wait for it.
—Lucille Clifton, “water sign woman”
Mid-March: You wish for the late-winter rain that Seattle is famed for. You wish for all the water the Pacific Northwest can ...
DESIRE IS AN IAMB by Lauren Fath
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Selections from Other Paths for Shahrazad (Tupelo Press, 2026).
كيف سنكتب عن الحب – الجزء 1 \ فيوليت أو الجلد - لبنان!نحن الذين فقدنا أطرافنا في حروب ...
Arabic Poems in Translation, Part 1
LAR Online, Translations
Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which won the Baltic ...
Two Poems by Mag Gabbert
LAR Online, Poetry
In the church in the fields, the original statue of Our Lady of Sonsoles sits near the sacristy. A copy stands at the altar. Legend has it that whenever attempts were made to carry the original from the grounds, it grew ...
Birthday at the Hermitage by Lana Spendl
Fiction, LAR Online
Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein
Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: January 21, 2025
ISBN: 97803746113358
Pages: 340
Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten is the ...
Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Selections from Other Paths for Shahrazad (Tupelo Press, 2026).كما في الحرب \ إيمان السباعي - مصر هذه الشقة صحر اءتنقطع الكهرباء فتلمع عيون ...
As in War by Iman Alsebaiy Co-Translated by Mohamed Hassan and Jennifer Jean
LAR Online, Translations
I was terrible at the claw machine. It was why I practiced five times a week for three-hour intervals at nearly fifteen reps per hour. Each rep only cost 1,o00 won, but it was 4,500 for a pack of cigarettes and 2,000 for ...
The Claw Machine by Hyo Jin Ha
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Both my grandparents died very young.
My mother thinks it’s because my grandfather would chain smoke in the greenhouse, creating a literal greenhouse effect where my grandmother constantly took in the secondhand ...
Practicing Dying by Rebecca Suzuki
LAR Online, Nonfiction
