It Was Untimely
Translated Story
Time is a locked chest. Once the chest is opened, it is impossible to keep the time inside.
A baby was born in a village. The chest opened, and time slowly seeped ...
Short Story by Esra Kahya translated by Aysel K. Basci
LAR Online, Translations
In a corps, it matters less whose steps are whose, but still,
.....................a dissonance among them can unravel
the whole of the performance. Tonight, my little ...
For the Pianist on Smoke Break Outside the Grand Rapids Ballet Company by Andrew Collard
LAR Online, Poetry
It started and then it couldn’t be stopped, them calling you Prof, though every now and then you’d be summoned Beth by the ones who seemed older than the rest, more secure in the democracy of learning, more prone to ...
Syllabus by Beth Kephart
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein
Review by Shannon Nakai
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 1524872202
Pages: 96
In 1979, Medbh McGuckian won the ...
Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein Review by Shannon Nakai
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I do a little dance for myself.
Turn to my husband and shout
It’s beer for dinner tonight, baby!
I have fun with myself.
I pull out the newborn
onesie with the graphic rainbow babe.
The ...
Not Pregnant Again by Whitney Koo
LAR Online, Poetry
Forever errant, he agreed to the date. What else was there to do but plunge back into battle, to meet and meet and meet? So he hammered fresh armor to defend himself from blows and scrapes and wounds, from all the ...
The Knight by Zak Salih
Fiction, LAR Online
Another Word for Hunger by Heather Bartlett
Review by Isaiah Vianese
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Publication Date: June 13, 2023
ISBN: 1951979486
Pages: 102
In the prologue poem of her debut ...
Another Word for Hunger by Heather Bartlett Review by Isaiah Vianese
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I woke from a dream today in which I finished the essay I started yesterday. The kind of finishing that is brilliant in the dream, slightly less brilliant when you wake up. Twisty and nonsensical by the time you finish ...
Shed Fall by Deb Werrlein
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Editor’s note: This piece contains subject matter that some readers may find troubling.
When I was a little kid, my great aunt shared my room. She was childless, so Mom claimed her. She slept in the bottom ...
Aunt Liesel by Derek Updegraff
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
