Devotional
after covid
I prepare my heart for
you. I unlash my ankles
from my bone, interlace
spine and rib. The same magic
that found you, replaced
you. Willow reeds, green
shoots ...
2021 LAR Poetry Award Winner: Nellie Le Beau
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
The sun had set an hour prior, and the motion detector Michael was supposed to fix two weeks ago still didn’t work. After nearly tripping over the wooden step on their porch, Jenna spent a minute unsuccessfully ...
Liar by Ryan Ritchie
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
3/12/2012 6:30 a.m.
Black sky. One streetlamp, bright as the moon. It might as well be midnight. Fauns could frolic among the graves.
6:37 a.m.
Dawn (weakly). Who the hell gets up this early? What are ...
Smile by Cathleen Calbert
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
Of my Own Free Will
Novel excerpt by Mathilde Forget
copyright Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2021
Translation by Kaylen Baker
Chapter Three
If his hand was in your mouth, he wasn’t ...
Of my Own Free Will Novel excerpt by Mathilde Forget Translation by Kaylen Baker
LAR Online, Translations
Since you asked, I’m most alive in autumn.
A beautiful spectacle of death
and if that’s all life turns out to be, I still think it’s worth it.
As a whole the world is unbearable
but isn’t it ...
Since You Asked, I’m Most Alive in Autumn by James Kelly Quigley
LAR Online, Poetry
The cat-sitter is on the lime green couch with her legs open in the air, head dangling on the floor. Her name is Daisy-Lily Miller, this is not her occupation; she just happens to be cat-sitting for the poet whose house ...
When The Girls Try by Zoë E. Wilson
Fiction, LAR Online
Dor by Alina Ștefănescu
Review by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Published September 2021 by Wandering Aengus Press
(Eastsound, Washington USA)
90 pages
ISBN 978-0-578-91578-4
Alina Ștefănescu's intense and ...
Dor by Alina Ștefănescu Review by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Fragment: Small Talk on Melancholia
In Lars von Trier’s film, Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst’s
character, Justine, tries to keep one step ahead of it.
You can see this in the first half of the film
where, ...
2 Poems by Cynthia Cruz
LAR Online, Poetry
When I open the fridge, a buzzing white light cuts through the darkness in the house. I stare at the items on the shelves, unable to land on anything. Darkness falls again when I close the door. I sit on the kitchen ...
Where I’m Supposed to Be by Mehr-Afarin Kohan
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
