Once my father took me with him to throw a gun in the river. This was on a Saturday morning in early winter. We climbed into his pickup, and he set the gun, a pistol, down on the seat between us. We both looked at it for ...
The Hollows by Tom Howard
Fiction, LAR Online
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
Review by Irene Cooper
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication Date: 4/22/2025
ISBN: 9781771126809
Pages: Illustrated | 194 pages
In ...
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly Review by Irene Cooper
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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Alex Rivera is an MFA student studying poetry at the University of South Florida. His poetry explores topics of masculinity, migration, and marginalization through the lens of family ...
Instructions on Growing by Alex Rivera
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Her husband Kevin had made a pot of inedible chili and Megan was livid. She had told him not to deviate from the recipe she’d perfected: chili powder and chili flakes, diced bell peppers, ground beef seared in a hot ...
Chili Night by Gwen E. Kirby
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I have a pebble in my right nipple. Or a pebble-size something. I found it one night lying in bed, and as I rolled it around under one finger to determine the size, I went into auto defense: a little cyst, ...
Waiting by Caroline Sutton
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A Woman Runs Within a Newspaper, Ablaze Sell my death to the newspapers,and tell the news to the ravens.I opposed the rocksthat agitated the river’s quiet,derailing the fish’s gentle strolls.I placed myself in the ...
A Poem by Younes Rezaie Translated by Himan Heidari
Translations
Joshua Escobar is author of the chapbooks Califorkya Voltage (No, Dear/Small Anchor) and xxox fm (Doublecross Press), a full-length collection of poems, Bareback ...
Love Letter by Joshua Escobar
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Raw almonds, ¼ cup
Raw cantaloupe, 1 cup
Steamed broccoli, 1/2 cup
Cheetos, 1 bag
Turned to internet last night, despite better judgment. Didn’t know what else to do, have been trying to get less fat for months now ...
Figures by Sophie Grossman
Fiction, LAR Online
Lunch under the naked sky
by Jana Putrle Srdić
co-translated with Sue Vickerman
What day is it?
The first of Microseason 46.
Ok. In four days, all insects will be underground, then it’s our next shift.
Four days. ...
