Mom is cooking Saluna.Lamb stew boiling and eggplants frying, ginger and turmeric permeate the house.The oval satinwood table and four Chromcraft leatherdining game chairs fill the middle of the kitchen.I’m 13, taking ...
In the Middle of the Kitchen by Nabeal Twereet
LAR Online, Poetry
A MAGIC TRICK
Marvelous Melvin said I was the bravest girl he’d ever met.
The magician came to my elementary school every year in the spring. On a Friday afternoon, our teachers packed us into the gym, where we ...
Two Works by Joanna Grisham
LAR Online, Nonfiction
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I’m a little girl. Not just any little girl, I am myself as a little girl. Héctor is holding my hand. This is how I know I’m a little girl in the dream, also because we’re in Cabo de Gata, the ...
Excerpts From Little Animals by Lucía Alba Martínez, Translated by Alice Banks
LAR Online, Translations
Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian writer and educator, currently based in New York. Her poetry and nonfiction has appeared or is upcoming in Alipore Post, Gone Lawn, Lunch Ticket Magazine SLAB, ...
Safety Manual by Aditi Bhattacharjee
LAR Online, Poetry
She remembered the rain, how it used to beat down on their windows, a gentle drumming easing her to sleep. When last did they have rain? Now it seemed imagined, as if she’d dreamed it up in a fit of madness. The ...
Approaching Day Zero by Tara Manshon
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I would like to believe that when the heavy elevator doors slammed shut, separating me from my 81-year old parents at The Louvre, that it wasn’t a big deal. Except that it was. It was a really big deal, though I’m ...
Let’s Try Not to Get Separated Again by Liz Rose Shulman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Ghazal to the Camel DriverOh camel-driver, slow your pace. That's my soul's peace that goes away.The heart I had now leaves with her, a piece of me she stole away.Parted against my will from her, helpless and weak and ...
Two Poems by Mushrifuddin Sa’dī Translated by A. Z. Foreman
LAR Online, Translations
Nicole Santalucia is the author of The Book of Dirt (NYQ Books, 2020), Spoiled Meat (Headmistress Press, 2019), and Because I Did Not Die (Bordighera Press, 2015). She is a recipient of the ...
We Had a Picnic by Nicole Santalucia
LAR Online, Poetry
“Your parents don’t mind how long we stay?” I asked.
“There’s some kind of a tax thing. Like it’s better if it’s occupied.”
The farmhouse was south of Charleston, halfway between Marlinton and Lewisberg. ...
Quarantine by David Bobrow
Fiction, LAR Online