Two days before I flew to my childhood home in rural Assam, India, an unaccountable itch made me put off some last-minute tasks and rush over to Will Rogers State Historic Park, in the Pacific Palisades. The vast lawn ...
Love Letter to Will Rogers, from Assam by Grace Singh Smith
LAR Online, Nonfiction
父亲晚景我从新疆回来那一天他正在一棵老桃树下种菜在给白菜垫底肥的时候他也给桃树上了肥料这使桃树在四年后他离开时依然结出了硕果 ...
Five Poems by Nianxi Chen Translated by Kuo Zhang & Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
LAR Online, Translations
The shop was just a gray concrete box in the middle of an empty parking lot. It wasn’t closed, but it looked closed. It looked like a place we shouldn’t be.
Michael wanted cowboy boots, but shopping for cowboy ...
One King Bed and Two Keys by Miguel Camnitzer
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Grandma Roberts has a secret. She tells me this as I’m lugging a jug of brown well water across the old cemetery while trying not to knock my shins against the stones. It is the summer of 2015, five years before she ...
Home to Ohio by Chelsie Bryant
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The Book by Mary Ruefle
Review by Donna Vatnick
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication Date: September 2023, re-release March 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950268-84-9
Pages: 112
“We were in our thirties and considered ourselves ...
The Book by Mary Ruefle Review by Donna Vatnick
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Glory DaysMy god, I have no one left.I use payphones.*I will ask for lifefrom the branches of a treeon an abandoned streetwhere an old woman with a shopping cartsells masks and streamers for a child’s party*When I ...
Glory Days by Jesse Littlejohn
LAR Online, Poetry
The Bargain
The Jhelum River starts at the foothills of the Himalayas, then winds through the disputed Kashmir Valley—first the Indian-administered side, then the Pakistani—, ending 200 kilometers from the ...
2024 Flash Fiction Award Winner: Rikha Sharma Rani
Award Winners, Flash Fiction
Paper BoatsIn a wished life, my mornings opennot with the jolt of an alarmbut with the rustle of pages turning softly.In the margins of old bookswhere coffee spills are constellations,and cigarette burns stain ...
2024 Poetry Award Winner: Leonardo Chung
Award Winners, Poetry
Heuston Street and Oppenheimer’s Cottage
The last lines of The Living and the Dead about snow falling on the living and the dead are painted, in pastel letters, on an electrical box in downtown Dublin; I saw them last ...
2024 Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Rebecca Pyle
Award Winners, Nonfiction
