They came in sputtering cars,
..................kicking the dirt trail to town,
....................................tossing empty Menthol boxes
in tall grass. They came
..................with gravel in ...
The Boys From Homer City by Clare Welsh
LAR Online, Poetry
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin
Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021
Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary
Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
In the beginning, a garden was the theater and launchpad for ...
Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin Reviewed by Shannon Nakai
Book Reviews, LAR Online
There may be virtue in restraint—: in distance, drinking,
or—like the child left to cry—in letting your savings
be. How, if you hold still enough to sense the veins’
valves click shut up & down ...
A Love Reckless by Cate Lycurgus
LAR Online, Poetry
The man you swore you’d marry is finally moving out, God bless him. You were starting to worry that he didn’t have a backbone. He’s shuffling about your room, blinking the wet out of his eyes, like a schoolboy ...
A Cat Called Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sam O’Brien
Fiction, LAR Online
Greta Garbo at Kyveleia
..................................My family was poor. I started working at 14, in a beauty
..................................parlor. Then fate came along in the guise of ...
2 poems by Liana Sakelliou Translated by Don Schofield
LAR Online, Translations
I keep a picture of my Grandma’s old yellow farmhouse on my desk. And now that the house no longer exists, this picture is a treasure, the thing I’d grab on the way out if my house in Chicago caught fire.
When my ...
Only A House by Christie Tate
LAR Online, Nonfiction
When She Speaks of the Fire
.................................she has to turn from it, so the story you hear
.................................is that of pines and twitching ...
When She Speaks of the Fire by Melissa Crowe
LAR Online, Poetry
We will soon join the others in the mass exodus. But first, I must convince Charlotte to go with us peaceably. This will not be easy.
To kill time, I pace the driveway. I double check to make sure the van is ready. ...
Meltdown by Richie Zaborowske
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Take Care is the brave and arrestingly beautiful second poetry collection to come from Eunice Andrada. Andrada delves (as she characteristically does) straight to the heart of what it means to be a young woman of diaspora, ...
Take Care by Eunice Andrada Review by Leila Lois
Book Reviews, LAR Online
