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Blood Poisoning  Eight generations of matriarchs declared her the black ewe in our lineage. And even from a trunk in the attic, Aunt Nina's stare follows me like a war recruitment poster, ...

2 Poems by R. A. Allen

LAR Online, Poetry

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Lucy just isn’t the kind of person who would do something like this. She’s such a good mom. It’s been a shock for all of us, especially poor Tim. I saw him yesterday out in front of their house. I was ...

To rest her feet, to feel like one of the girls by Hannah Grieco

Fiction, LAR Online

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Lures by Adam Vines Review by Leona Sevick Publisher: Louisiana State University Press ISBN: 978-0-807 1-7689-4 Publication Date: February 9, 2022, Pages: 58 I read Adam Vines’ Lures in a ...

Lures by Adam Vines Review by Leona Sevick

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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There are ways to know the mother  will leave. She no longer cooks with Morton salt though pressures rise like aspirations and the soup still tastes of tears.  You often find her buried ...

Signs of Impending Matriarchal Departure or Fair? by Alafia Nicole Sessions

LAR Online, Poetry

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When my mother and I first moved to Ojai, we lived in a cabin up Sisar Canyon. We had been nomads, living briefly in Athens, Greece with my father, then in Oakland with my Aunt Melissa, then in San Rafael with my ...

Monkey Flower by Mira Skalkottas

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Plane Trees, Late Summer See, even their branches crave reprieve, just a few days’ rest, and see how those alleys end: answerless. Feel this August still humming on the lakes’ ...

Poems by Gunnar Translated by Klein Voorhees

LAR Online, Translations

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How Would You Like It The indignity at the end. I tell myself to tell you. No one would want this though no one is asked. Times he was left naked on the too-high bed;  not allowed to eat, or forced ...

2 Poems by Mary Ann Samyn

LAR Online, Poetry

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I’m on a wooden bed in a locked room, in a red house, in a gated garrison. Nothing around but endless lines of trees. No one can find me here. No one is looking. A solitary unlit bulb hangs from the cracked ...

The Red House by Rachel Ramirez

Fiction, LAR Online

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All my dreams end in that apartment, even four years later. I can still feel that thick tile on my feet, the clink of the bathroom door handle closing, the dusty dry of the stucco walls. I could find my way back, ...

Budapest, Lover by Bekah Waalkes

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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