“Cow so evil, so bully, knock your spirit right out yuh chest. Fall on yuh ass and pray to God yuh ain't dead,” Lilith's Uncle Man told her before she left. Her grip on the barrel of clothes had already numbed her ...
Wash Day by Stephanie Mullings
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Curb
Divya Victor
review by Mandana Chaffa
Nightboat Books, April 2021, 128 pages, $17.95
Divya Victor’s Curb explores immigration, identity, and the boundaries that keep us safe and those that ...
Curb by Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa
Book Reviews, LAR Online
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles read a radio play of
H. G. Wells’s novel, believed by many who heard it to be
a true, live reporting of an invasion from Mars. Some women
were even said to have run out, ...
The War of the Worlds by Sarah Crossland
LAR Online, Poetry
Pasillos
Iré por los pasillos
haciendo caso omiso
de los charcos transparentes,
de las eléctricas guiñadas,
de los derruidos calefactores.
Cada puerta esconde un ...
4 Poems by Miguel Avero Translated by Jona Colson
LAR Online, Translations
I disappeared from the ranch in the summer, but every day was summer on the ranch.
Townspeople called it Manure Ranch, because the stench of cow shit made everyone in the commune stink. We really called ourselves ...
Cherry Picker by Shyla Jones
Fiction, LAR Online
DIMINUENDO FOR THE SHORT FRENCH VERSE OF RILKE
It was believed he wrote less and less in German until he had to salvage
what was left by packing it quickly into one suitcase, a small ...
3 Poems by David Keplinger
LAR Online, Poetry
Cities after misfortune
when silence inundates
light before and after misfortune
cities with the wind in your hair
because you love to walk over bridges
feeling deeply the torrent’s ...
2 Poems from Lointaines by Nicole Brossard Translated by: Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
LAR Online, Translations
When Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen from his freshly dead body and carried by car across the country, my father was seventeen, living in Abilene, TX, with his parents and three siblings. They were very poor, and at ...
Truce by Melissa Cundieff
LAR Online, Nonfiction
His eyes were always tearful; he wept sweet life away, in longing to go back home,
.......................since she no longer pleased him.
..............................................—Book 5, The Odyssey, ...
Calypso Keeps What She Finds by Sonia Greenfield
LAR Online, Poetry
