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She tapped her finger once at the hollow where the collarbones met.  Here Here, she says.  The wind and darkness entered through the window of the car’s backseat. Tuberose everywhere. My hand was ...

Here by Arka Bani Maini

Fiction, LAR Online

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I am the prickle breeze on the back of your neck. Your peach fuzz neck hair leans west for a breath. You pet your neck and wonder, what was it? The breeze that is me. You swivel your head, searching for an open door, ...

On Not Being Invited and Going Anyway by Anne Gudger

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Frank Dark by Stephen Massimilla Review by Ruth Danon Publisher: Barrow Street Press ISBN: 1736607561 Publication Date: September 28, 2022 Pages: 112 pages Stephen Massimilla’s brilliant poetry ...

Frank Dark by Stephen Massimilla Review by Ruth Danon

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Mariam Meetra, born in Baghlan, Afghanistan, 1992 and lives in Berlin. She studied journalism and mass communication in Kabul and completed a master’s in social sciences at the Humboldt University ...

Poems by Mariam Meetra Translated by Hajar Hussaini

LAR Online, Translations

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Artist StatementIn October of last year I flew home to take care of my mother after she fell off a ladder and shattered her heel bone in thirteen places. While at home, I discovered a cache of Polaroid photographs of my ...

POLAROIDS BY NICK MARTINO

Poetry

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The Cut Point by Rodrigo Toscano Review by Eric Larsh Publisher: Counterpath Books Publication Date: May 1, 2023 ISBN: 1933996838 Pages: 100 The Cut Point by Rodrigo Toscano explores the crucial ...

The Cut Point by Rodrigo Toscano Review by Eric Larsh

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Minutes before his execution for blasphemy the brilliant Pakistani mathematician Zahid Abidi whispered into the ear of the hangman who would fasten the noose around his neck the proof of a long thought to be insoluble ...

The Hangman’s Brother by David Sheskin

Fiction, LAR Online

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Who’s parting?—El Flaco, my father.  As if I were in a casket, he contemplates my sleep.  My so-sticky-sweet father  does not wake me with a kiss. Ghosting me  without ...

The Leaking Roof of Time by Yessica Martinez  

LAR Online, Poetry

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Perched on a branch, I flapped my wings and cawed. One by one, the bird-watchers swung their binoculars toward me, watching. What did they see? Big Bird. To make rent, I used to dress up as Big Bird. You know, lives on ...

The Pretend Big Bird by Will Musgrove

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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