The four walls of the Setco Plastics Factory
were built around my sister’s name—its red
lip, its pride, its dark hair pulled up to where
she couldn’t see it. Her words were sifted
through a wall of exhaust ...
Carmen by Gustavo Hernandez
LAR Online, Poetry
She did it again. I’m always surprised. What does that say about me? I certainly don’t learn. We have an agreement, and she consistently breaks it. We’ve been practicing the Pass the Feather method. Our marriage ...
I Feel _____ When by Laura White Gray
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Kate Whittemore
I can tell by your face that you’ve seen the dead bird at the edge of the beach, the feathers glued down like a plastic skin. I was witness to how the sea left it there this morning. I ...
Gravity by Aroa Moreno Durán
LAR Online, Translations
before you i lived in a world of birds.
i cannot say that i was lonely, but i was
alone, bearing witness to their color
and sound. i drew their shapes, listened in,
couldn’t care about faces or words.
before ...
for my brother by Ana Pugatch
LAR Online, Poetry
1.
It's not that I wanted to make her cry. It's just that I could stand it before. My sister and I had terrible fights. They started as soon as she was old enough to talk. As soon as I was old enough to hit. The ...
Convalescence Triptych by Diana Cejas
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Sally Smits Masten
Monster Colloquia
Robert Campbell
Hellbox Publications, April 2020
$7.99; 34 pp.
ISBN: 9781734888904
For about a year, while we were binge-watching The Walking Dead, I ...
Review: Monster Colloquia by Robert Campbell
Book Reviews, LAR Online
“That wood went clear through Boyle’s hand,” Scotty said.
“Yeah,” Dale agreed, “They’re too damn cheap to sharpen the saw regular. Always throwing off shards. I hate that goddamn saw.”
He slurped his beer ...
Sinker by John Brady
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
In my hometown it will cost you
7.98 at Walmart if you want it
in blue with a rifle in the talons
of an eagle, or bannered across
a motorcycle that was Born to Ride.
You can drink freedom for 9.99
in Pigeon ...
Freedom Isn’t Free by Aaron Smith
LAR Online, Poetry
I: Halcyon
I grew up in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, just a smudge of a prairie town with very little to recommend it, but which—to its credit—has a name with a sensible origin story. One of the first settlers, seeing a ...
Two Stories by Janice Obuchowski
Fiction, LAR Online
