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In you come. You’ve been carting junk
All day; you dump it. Fire up the candles
With a glance. God what a slum.
You slip off your cloak.
You ache an ache as old as time.
Music! Put on ...
3 poems by Lyudmila Knyazeva Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes
LAR Online, Translations
When the Night Is Near as a Bird
whose nest has toppled,
and the bird seeks out the cotton
of your shirt to curl into— such a risk
the bird takes to love a human,
humans being such ...
When the Night Is Near as a Bird by Doris Ferleger
LAR Online, Poetry
The day began before sunrise. Hong Insu woke to a house so dark and quiet it seemed submerged under water. He felt a presence in the room: a fragment of his mother’s unhappiness had slipped in through the wall and was ...
Have a Nice Day by Sera Yu
Fiction, LAR Online
The War in the Bully Boss
.........................................for my father
......................................................As if the first day at McDonald’s isn’t like burning grease ...
Collection by Dennis Etzel Jr.
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Saga Boy, a heart-warming memoir by Antonio Michael Downing, is a story of the impact of unaddressed generational trauma on a family. In four acts and an epilogue, Downing chronicles his life from his childhood in ...
Saga Boy by Antonio Michael Downing Review by Carol Mitchell
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Overnight, the land traded faces, brownstone roofs
newly suffocated in snow, and with nothing between
us but an open window, she and I sat, smoking,
shivering like a punishment, each with one hand out ...
Advance by Katherine Fallon
LAR Online, Poetry
She was taking me to my first drum circle. Golden Gate Park. Overcast July. The promise of barefoot hippies and music and weed and love, all things I desperately needed. The walk down Fulton would take a half hour, but ...
Fulton Street By Eric Scot Tryon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer is a book everyone should read. Kati Standefer has long QT syndrome, and her doctor decides that she needs the surgical implant ...
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer Review by Dr. Kate Gale
Book Reviews, LAR Online
As the young couple enter the rickety Sol-Ventas tram, the air fills with an exotic aroma, arousing the curiosity of a nun, the only other passenger on board.
She ...
On the Tram by Luisa Carnés Translated by Robin Munby
LAR Online, Translations
