You were placed like wings are placed
as if they’ll never be needed to leave with
but then you were born
and each time I unwrap your diaper
I consider every ...
Mother Nothing by Elizabeth Metzger
LAR Online, Poetry
Superheroes, ghosts, and members of The Beatles were buzzed on birthday cake and chocolate bars. The kindergartners pounded their little fists on the dining room table, eager to paint pumpkins, the final activity of ...
You Monster by Kate Faigen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
Review by Deborah Williams
Pub date: 18 Jan 2022
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0451480589
416 pages
An iridescent Möbius-strip ...
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor Review by Deborah Williams
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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
