Body position as Rorschach test. Arms wide, Jesus on the cross—one leg stretched, one tucked, Jesus on the cross—elbows in—out—mimicking your lungs now and you can believe instead you’re a true jellyfish. You ...
A Frame by Melissa L. Amstutz
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Twenty-Five
We were genuine
naugahyde when we met,
which is to say
we knew how to fake
our real feelings
with a side of vulnerability.
Sex helped, then ...
Two Poems by Fritz Ward
LAR Online, Poetry
You reek of weed, menthols, and beer as you walk me to my car from your house.
It’s three in the morning. The snow is ice beneath our feet. The music, voices, and light that fill the house fade as we walk. Our ...
Happy New Year by C.A. Olsen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Cleave by Tiana Nobile
Review by: Megan Pinto
Spartanburg: Hub City Press, 2021
72 pages
$16.00
From “Child’s Pre-Flight Report”:
Name in Full: Moon, Yeong Shin ....................Case ...
Cleave Review by Megan Pinto
Book Reviews, LAR Online
ROWING, AND THEN LIGHT
The lines given me by the river, I’ll leave to the river.
Islands of sky flicker the brim, and then
light
on the tangled marsh.
Light where ...
Two Poems by Molly Spencer
LAR Online, Poetry
At first, most of the partygoers thought it was a joke. A stunt. Part of the entertainment, surely. After all, they were promised a show. They’d been raised on a steady diet of the extreme, each video of the influencer ...
Slice of Life by Andi Delott
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Improvisation Without Accompaniment
By Matt Morton
BOA Editions
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-942683-95-7
84 pages
$17
The Instruction of Delight
On Matt Morton’s ...
Improvisation Without Accompaniment Review by Caleb Braun
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The trees are very unhappy to be trees,
unhappiness along my street, ancient live oaks.
Just like people, they long to be something else.
No one asked a cloud to be a cloud
or me human, a man. I’d ...
Cat at My Front Door Looking In by Peter Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
We loved the taste of tamarind. A shop not far from our school in Bihar, India, sold pulpy tamarind candies. They were embedded with sugar crystals and coated with black pepper. The sweetness cut into the sourness and ...
Tamarind by Mohit Manohar
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
