Sister
After Catherine Pond
What if August never ended.
What if August never began.
What if wild mushrooms grew large as oaks in my backyard
...............and the moon a small white heart in the ...
2 Poems by Esther Sun
LAR Online, Poetry
Catalog
The first counselor arrives, slipping out of a dark winter coat. He’s dressed in a dark suit and tie, white shirt starched and stiff. The rest of us arrive, the girls I grew up with, playing jump ...
2021 LAR Short Fiction Award Winner: Marilyn Abildskov
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Mammy Mary Says
Your Best Friend and you are on your way to her house. It’s a bit cold and you’re both wearing earmuffs. She lives in the Council Estate closest to your Primary School. You do think ...
2021 LAR Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Lauren Foley
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Eight Arms to Hold You
The first time you asked me to take off my shirt over the internet, I did so and a pea-sized spider fell out. I was surprised, but also not. Summer brings them out in abundance, ...
2021 LAR Flash Fiction Award Winner: Leanne Dunic
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
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
