When I was fifteen, playing field hockey in Alta Plaza Park with my friend Lucy, two men picked us up. When I say “men,” I mean just that: they were years older than us (hours later I was to learn Théo was ...
Alta Plaza Park by Kim Magowan
Fiction, LAR Online
First Chapter of Maps of Jonas (2018)
By Mahmoud Hosny
Translated by Scott Abramson
“Your heart, a bridge levitating on wings of water, is enough for you,
your baffled heart is enough for ...
The First Pit That Death Creeps Out Of translated by Scott Abramson
LAR Online, Translations
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During the decade prior to the spring of 2020, I wore only black clothes.
Whenever someone remarked on this habit, I’d retort that I started wearing all black in 2010—after being unexpectedly fired ...
Safety Yellow by Zachary Pace
LAR Online, Nonfiction
—from Poems À la minute
Daniel
My name. Shared with many others,
Dead and living, a few famous, most not,
Yet with each of whom I feel an elusive but undeniable
Kinship. Although meaningless ...
2 Poems by Daniel Lawless
LAR Online, Poetry
When I met him in a courtyard in Prague, I held court all night long. My hair was streaked with pink, and I wore flower barrettes in my hair. We were part of a summer writing intensive, and we spent our mornings in ...
You Must Not Know About Me by Maggie Andersen
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review: Quivira by Karen Kevorkian
Reviewed by Thaisa Frank
109 pages
Release Date: January 1, 2020
Publisher: Three: A Taos Press
Quivira, Karen Kevorkian’s third and stunning collection of ...
Quivira Reviewed by Thaisa Frank
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The drunks had sung at midnight for at least a hundred Mondays. They’d drift down-street after karaoke ended and gather around my blue trash tote.
I was used to their crooning. They could really do it. No ...
Welcome to Ecumenica by Tyler Barton
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Author’s note: A novel-in-verse that retells the Noah’s Ark story on a container ship in the near future, Ceive traffics in dystopian grammars. After a catastrophic collapse of civilization, a woman named Val is ...
Excerpts from Ceive by B.K. Fischer
LAR Online, Poetry
Red had never been to the Aldi by herself since her eyesight began to fail, and it overwhelmed her, the muddled beeping and chatter and footslaps, the efficient shopper-motion, the indistinct items crammed onto rows and ...
Red, Wolfgang, and the Dream by Wendy Elizabeth Wallace
Fiction, LAR Online
