The Los Angeles Review

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

The cat-sitter is on the lime green couch with her legs open in the air, head dangling on the floor. Her name is Daisy-Lily Miller, this is not her occupation; she just happens to be cat-sitting for the poet whose house ...

When The Girls Try by Zoë E. Wilson

Fiction, LAR Online

Dor by Alina Ștefănescu Review by Daniel A. Rabuzzi Published September 2021 by Wandering Aengus Press (Eastsound, Washington USA) 90 pages ISBN 978-0-578-91578-4 Alina Ștefănescu's intense and ...