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“I can’t find your left ovary.” In a very compromising position, I asked the ultrasound tech what she meant. Before responding, she requested I push down with my left hand low on my belly, where I knew my left ...

Elusive Ovary by Jenn Director Knudsen

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Over soup she said You’ve hardly cried this yearThen I rubbed my eyes hands covered in the jalapeno I’d broken into my brothShe said Keep blinking Steam clung to the starless windows but I saw nothingI was ...

Capsaicin and Ars Poetica by Shelby Handler

LAR Online, Poetry

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Girl Trouble by Diana Whitney Reviewed by Aline Soules Publisher: CavanKerry Press ISBN: 978-1960327192 Publication Date: April 7, 2026 Pages: 96 The title Girl Trouble and the dedication “for the survivors” ...

Girl Trouble by Diana Whitney Reviewed by Aline Soules

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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I Guess You Are a Firefly Girl To poetryYear of the Tiger, I catch a water-blue butterfly whose wings will unfold into your eyes. You nap on tender grass, each motion a ripple. You smear light all over me, help me dive ...

Three poems by ChenChen Xiang Yin Translated by Qiang Meng

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Day One   September. The hotel. It was supposed to be beautiful. It was, after all, named after Jay Gatsby, and located on a French side street. The emerald green walls, like a signature. They left their luggage at the ...

All That Was Promised by William Pei Shih

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  I can be many people: partner, friend, child, sibling.  But I can’t really be a woman, I tell myself.  Not like I was.  The empty toilet has also told me this, time and time again. Still I sit, cramped in the ...

Between the Legs by Madison Chapman

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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RitualsI don’t know if lifewill always be this brink betweenadolescence and adulthoodthe salty high of cryingonce a day at leastOr this desireto stop explaining existenceHungerthe need for heatfor sexwithout ...

Two Poems by Daniela Prado Translated by Lizzie Fox and Jeannine Marie Pitas

LAR Online, Translations

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Lake GardaI’m sorry. I hated all the men I met in Italy, but charmed them anyway. Drank limoncello during the day and spent too much on gogglesso I could see the waggling troutup close. On the mollusk husks and sharp ...

Two Poems by Sara Kaplan-Cunningham

LAR Online, Poetry

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  When Edwin was five his parents took him to see their elderly neighbor, Mr. Yeager, who was dying at home in a rented hospital bed. Edwin’s father explained that the bed could be raised up or down and it had wheels, ...

Deathbed by Kris Willcox

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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