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
The Yak Dilemma
by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Review by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
ISBN: 9781527271654
Publisher: Makina Books
Publication Date: April 15th, 2021
Page Count: 92
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal’s first ...
The Yak Dilemma by Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Review by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Neck stretched back and tipped slightly upside
down, two weeks earlier I looked for the Perseids,
their August arrival scattered in summer’s deep
pockets. Now, warm gel glides over my ...
Augusts by Sarah Pape
LAR Online, Poetry
The Failed Fantasy Author sits outside a Starbucks drinking coffee as he types another paragraph about the king of the elves. This is his fifth attempt at writing a fantasy novel and his fourth attempt where the ...
Failed Fantasy Author by James Reinebold
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Have you ever gotten younger as you’ve gotten older? Maybe just on and off. Or maybe a little at a time and more and more. Used to be, I wondered about this. Not anymore. I can think of a famous poet and how it was ...
It’s Not That, It’s Never That by Mary Ann Samyn
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A Picture
by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop
translated by Leo Shtutin
I chanced to purchase, at a junk shop, a remarkable picture—the work of an old master—and ordered for it a fine heavy boxwood frame. The ...
A Picture by Alexander Jonathan Vidgop translated by Leo Shtutin
LAR Online, Translations
