A physician reflects on the June 2025 war that has bubbled over into the current war in/against Iran.
On the first day Israel bombed Iran, I thought of my grandmother braiding her hair. As a child, I would perch at ...
The Twelve Days of War by Altaf Saadi
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Thank you for the interesting afternoon.It’s not something I’m really familiar with.If you set the mimesis beam too highyou no longer get to be self-referential,are no longer let into the secret societymade from all ...
Rise and Fall [56] by Daniel Ruiz
LAR Online, Poetry
The trouble in Faye Steinbruch’s marriage emerged when they received a pair of theater tickets purchased in the name of their recently deceased neighbor. This was far from the first time the couple had received mail ...
Understudies in the Audience by Jacob Appel
Fiction, LAR Online
Five poems from La Saigne (The Bleeding), Ed Le Manteau & la Lyre. OBSIDIANE, 2021XIFaced with your silence and insultsthe immigrant plungesinto the watery graveyardand listens to the voice of the village, which ...
Five poems from La Saigne by Bios Diallo Translated by Patrick Williamson
LAR Online, Translations
There are only two things Hunter hates most of all: burnt toast and doing laundry. Because the list is so short, she is always reminded of burnt toast as she folds Jade’s boxer-briefs, which makes for an unpleasant ...
Rituals by Eli Dunham
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Pregnancy No. 1
Gestation: 6 weeks, 1 day
I was a girl trying to be a woman in a man’s world, a fledgling New York City architect. With a work ethic inherited from immigrant parents who fled communist Poland with ...
Motherhood: A Resurrection by Magda Stoenescu
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Tailspin and Other Stories by Pat Matsueda
Review by Steve Heller
Publishers: El León Literary Arts and Mānoa Books
Publication Date: 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9873718-6-2
Pages: 36
A Little of Everything: Bringing Life ...
Tailspin and Other Stories by Pat Matsueda, Review by Steve Heller
Book Reviews, LAR Online
from Cœurs, livres d’amour, by Hélène DorionThis morning the wind embraces the house, holdsthe trees close as your silence holds me.The expanse is erased, leaving nothing but my bodymy fine veins, my hands ...
Selected poems from Hearts, Books of Love by Hélène Dorion Translated by Susanna Lang
LAR Online, Translations
Fairytale of Old Town Pasadena I’m waiting for your shift to end scooping baklava ice cream in an alley storefront better suited to hawking bacon-wrapped hot dogs to the drunks staggering home with sticky shoes from ...
Two Poems by Michael Juliani
LAR Online, Poetry
