The 32-Cent Heart
If the summer never comes, then we will learn
to love the gray, the way it unfurls the windows,
makes a flush of robins crackle in ornamental fig.
At the farm, a lamb has come, ...
2 Poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith
LAR Online, Poetry
This was the difference between being the graduate student with a piece of shit car and being the professor with the keys to an office—well, one of them anyway. You never needed to utter I feel or In my opinion or If ...
Through the Blizzard by Stephen Haines
Fiction, LAR Online
Loose Magic by Les Bernstein
Review by Susan E. Gunter
ISBN 978-1-64662-673-1
Finishing Line Press, 2021.
Georgetown, Kentucky
Release Date: 11/5/2021
Pages: 160
In her most recent book, Loose ...
Loose Magic by Les Bernstein Review by Susan E. Gunter
Book Reviews, LAR Online
..........................In the ghostly movie palace
.............our eyes weep at our eyes
elated across the screen. Biggest
..........................little eyes. We are ...
Monolids by Shelley Wong
LAR Online, Poetry
Today I restock cups. I pull the wobbly stacks from their box-home and release them from protective sleeves. Particles of foam linger white in my hair like flecks of snow. Molly ruffles my head and says, Nice lice. Her ...
Double Drive by Nina Semczuk
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
My older brother and I keep making jokes about charging a cover fee for our dad’s future funeral. We agree he knows too many people, and since the venue will need to accommodate at least an opera house’s worth of ...
The Legend of My Dad’s Fifty Boyfriends by Spencer Williams
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Canal
Çumra Canal’s waters as they flow out of the Beyşehir Lake are normal until they reach Konya’s plains, where they turn blood red. Some say it’s because of the color of the soil, but I believe it’s ...
The Canal by Sabahattin Ali translated from Turkish by Aysel K. Basci
LAR Online, Translations
The pulmonologist doesn’t know
what’s wrong with my father’s lungs. Filled
with clouds – the kind that hurry
toward you as a warning. He doesn’t know why
my father can’t catch his breath, ...
Clouds by January Pearson
LAR Online, Poetry
Today, you texted him. “Happy birthday!” said the text. He did not respond, and from here on out, you will not speak again.
A month ago, you saw him while you were on a Tinder date with someone else. At least you ...
The Years by Kalila Holt
Fiction, LAR Online
