The truth is I hate other people's dogs. Their imposing stares, their smell, their excessive hair, their slobbery mouths spewing froth. I pretend to like his though. Why do I do this? Why do I put on this dog-loving ...
A Decent Human Being by Athena Nassar
LAR Online, Nonfiction
If Only
If only; if only it would snow.
I lived, I was, defeated, honoured, proud.
Oh, when will come the snow, the falling snow?
The snows will come.
One day I'll step down from the off-white porch
See ...
If Only By Dmitry Vodennikov Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes
LAR Online, Translations
Under a Sputnik-shaped lamp,
a Picasso print with three eyes.
My husband’s prosthetic eye
is as blue as the other.
After the surgery,
we had sex,
his eye under a ...
Airbnb Art by Christian Gullette
LAR Online, Poetry
We will never learn to speak Spanish—our mother fights us every step of the way. She wants nothing to do with her father’s language, nothing that reminds her of him— including herself. We’ve seen the proof in the ...
Buen Provecho by Amina Gautier
Fiction, LAR Online
I was eating brunch the first time I saw the drifts of slow white fall from the sky. It was July in San Francisco. A fat flake settled atop my hollandaise, too light to dent the shiny yellow fat. I can only fear what I ...
Paradise, Recycled by Margaret “Charley” Burlock
LAR Online, Nonfiction
No Society Without Poetry:
A Conversation with Sheng Keyi about Death Fugue
Tiffany Troy: Do you want to introduce yourself to your readers of the world?
Sheng Keyi: I was born in the 1970’s in a small ...
Interview with Sheng Keyi by Tiffany Troy
Interviews, LAR Online
One of you has slit a finger while opening
a parcel with the Exacto knife kept by
the front door, while the other is hanging
up a coat, tossing keys in a basket. There
is blood on one of your thighs. ...
Very Long Marriage by Elizabeth Jacobson
LAR Online, Poetry
The second girl sweeps into arabesque—a sleep-dancing marionette.
“Good, good,” says Apolline. “Good.”
Copper-haired faces tilt towards her like sunflowers. There is no music here. Only Apolline’s ...
Softly, Gently, Softly by Sophie Hoss
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Brocken Spectre
by Jacques J. Rancourt
Alice James Books
100 Pages
September 14, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1948579209
Review by Erica Charis-Molling
What does it mean to love when one’s love has ...
Brocken Spectre by Jacques J. Rancourt Book Review by Erica Charis-Molling
Book Reviews, LAR Online
