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I decide to have an affair the day after my husband starts filming. The idea first sprouts when he mentions audition and romantic lead in the same sentence. It metastasizes when he says he has a call back; festers when ...

The Role by Ashley N Roth

Fiction, LAR Online

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I’m learning how to be a good neighbor. On my walks to work I turn and turn again, charting through the network of neighborhood dogs. Set on edge by the unfamiliar click of my heels, offended by my proximity, they ...

GOOD NEIGHBOR by Gabriela Valencia

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Crawling What does it mean to crawl sideways in a continuum? Here might you please find the wisdom of experts who gather around the baby, this child who looks at a destination but then scoots backward, face beaming ...

Two Fables by Edie Meidav

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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1.Ты родной мне по крови, по духу,По способности к состраданию, доброте,Мои мысли блуждают по кругу,От тебя до тебя, от ...

Three poems by Lyudmila Knyazeva Translated from the Russian by Richard Coombes

Translations

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Windows 85 by Chris Campanioni Review by Fernando Trujillo Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: Roof BooksPublication Date: November 2024ISBN: ‎ 979-8-9896652-7-3Pages: 160 Trick of the Eyes: Review of Chris ...

Windows 85 by Chris Campanioni Review by Fernando Trujillo Interview by Tiffany Troy

Book Reviews, Interviews, LAR Online

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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

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  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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  Fish _   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

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      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

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  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

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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

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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

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        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

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“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

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SAD GROWNUPS by Amy Stuber Review by Molly McGinnis Publisher: Stillhouse Press Publication Date: Oct. 8, 2024 ISBN: 978-0-9969816-6-8 Pages: 224  Surface-level observations often pass for wisdom on the internet. ...

Sad Grownups By Amy Stuber Review by Molly McGinnis

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Death Is OptionalSo, you’d like to escape an apocalypseof your own making. We could hang youupside down in a tank of liquid nitrogen,or upload your brain to the cloud, but we believethat hardcore biohacking is the way ...

Two Poems by Nicholas Montemarano

LAR Online, Poetry

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It was a frustrating book to read. He never actually saw the text shift before his eyes, never saw a sentence blur into something else right there on the page. Every time he flipped through the first half of the book, ...

The Ever-Changing Book by Arthur Mandal

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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I. The trick to cleaning up the lyrics of a song about sex, like Ariana Grande’s “Love Me Harder” is to swap the words and/or phrases about copulation for ones about singing. The family-friendly company that spells ...

Idolatree by Courtney Miller Santo

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Rivers in pipesburied rivers are screamingin voices of seaweed-eyed sirenslungs pierced by the spires of St. Anne’sthe rivers were left to babblein pipestheir water archived in fonds, in mapsthe rivers promise to ...

Three Poems by Alina Borzenkaitė Translated by Dave Seter

LAR Online, Translations

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to learn things i didn’t know i didn’t know where love livedwhere love had taken shelter found refuge where it had hidden and whispered to itself and been patient and taken root decades of saying i ...

i made a drawing of myself by ire’ne lara silva

LAR Online, Poetry

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(CW: Physical violence, self-harm, fatphobia, homophobia) My mother hates the way I look. I hate the way she looks at me. I hate the way I look too. I am not bad looking. Five-feet-eight, medium build, caramel skin. ...

My Mother is a Cannibal by Priyanuj Mazumdar

Fiction, LAR Online

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DEPTH CONTROL BY LAUREN W. WESTERFIELD Review by Courtney Kersten Publisher: Unsolicited Press Publication Date: April 15, 2025  ISBN: 978-1-956692-94-5 Pages: 152 Louise Bourgeois’ Femme Maison series (1946-7) ...

Depth Control by Lauren W. Westerfield Review by Courtney Kersten

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Radio«Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.Escribir, por ejemplo, “La noche está estrellada…».Ese era Neruda desde un pequeño radio portátil de plástico,azul, con botones blancos, cuando yo tenía ...

Two Poems by William Archila, Translated into Spanish by Mario Zetino

Dual-Language, LAR Online, Poetry

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“Do you remember when I told you about going skiing that one time with my family–when I was a teenager? And I met that girl and we hit it off, but something happened and I lost track of her and I didn’t know her ...

The Memory Place by Christopher Thomas

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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  When I think of my mother, when I try to see her in my mind, I can only see her hands. Though they must have been beautiful once, in my memory, her hands are gnarled roots. They’re calloused and yellowed by tobacco, ...

Every Tree is a Mother, Every Mother a Tree by M Jaimie Zuckerman

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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SterilityOh, don’t have me return to my former painful life:don't you know that it would be like wanting to plant grain in a cemetery?And who would you want to eat of such breadtomorrow?Not even a hungry ...

Five Poems by Antonia Pozzi Translated by Amy Newman

LAR Online, Translations

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  At dinner time, Ankit leans over the table and spits on Raunak’s food. Ankit’s followers—“gang,” as he calls them—laugh.  “Ignore him,” Shashi, who sits next to Raunak, whispers. At bedtime, the boys ...

Lesson by Mohit Manohar

Fiction, LAR Online

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From SiedliskoYou say I shouldn’t praise the day before evening comesbut I’ll do just that.I praise the dovecote in Trzebiechow and how the dovesscatter as we drive byon our way to the lake.I praise the mallow ...

Three Poems by Nathalie Schmid Translated by Ellene Glenn Moore

Translations

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The Tears & Smiles of Things by Andriy Sodomora Translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi Review by Nicole Yurcaba Publisher: Academic Studies Press Publication Date: 02/13/2024 ISBN:  979-8887194387 Pages: ...

The Tears & Smiles of Things by Andriy Sodomora Translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Sabrina Jaszi, Review by Nicole Yurcaba

Book Reviews

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When you walk through the anteroomthere are geraniums placed purposefullyon the entryway table, as if they have been waiting for you.Did you notice them, the geraniums?The color is a grayish blue, a slight mauve,but ...

The Anteroom by Daniel Mills

LAR Online, Poetry

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In ‘53, polio hovered over the summertime streets of Toronto, multiplied in the warmth of ambling creeks and in the shallowsands of Ward’s Island, and in rainfall, slipped from the canopy ofmaple, elm, heat and ...

In the Summer of ‘53 by Elina Kumra

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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When a snake is coiled, she is ready to strike, though sometimes the coil is a defensive bluff, pure tactic, and she’s protecting herself, her soft vulnerable underbelly, from predators or threats, real and perceived, ...

Coiled by Ana Maria Spagna

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Consequences My wedding dress was sewn by a circus dwarf. Her name was Rita, one day she left the big tops and started working as a seamstress like her mother. She sewed for eveyone in the housing project, for a few ...

Consequences by Giovanna Daddi translated by Anne Milano Appel

Translations

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  My mother was an amphetamine addict who left me in a gas station bathroom somewhere east of Maniac, Georgia, when I was four. The last thing I saw of her was her hand, held up, not waving but still. Soon after, I was ...

The Dead Cat by Whitney Collins

Fiction, LAR Online

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A hand touching a neck. Tía Puy shuffling her deck and the king of batons. Passion. The lifeline. The bar Zulo and Santa Justa Station, simultaneously. Foolishness. But that was what he said. Just thinking about it ...

Queen of Batons by Julen Azcona, Translated by Slava Faybysh

Translations

Data Mind: Poems by Joanna Fuhrman Review by Christine E. Hamm Publisher: Curbstone Books Publication Date: October 2024 ISBN:  0810147742 Pages: 96 When speaking of a virus, we tend to think of it in negative ...

Data Mind: Poems by Joanna Fuhrman Review by Christine E. Hamm

Book Reviews

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Hard leather valid as the exchange between AJ & Free, solid as the greasefrom the hour prior I cooked intoa charade of dark. I’ve heard love is known by three names though it has only shared one with me. I shout ...

Pelle Pelle by Olatunde Osinaike

LAR Online, Poetry

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The ramps by Midpark were flooded and now the loons thought they could make their homes anywhere. John-Mark and I had visited his side of the family in Manila, and the flight back was turbulent. We were watching that ...

Covenant by Mason Koa

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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Untitled an old cemetery along the streetcar linethe fence isn’t tall—just up to your throat.from the streetcar windows you can seeold graves,trees smashed by artillery shells.the cemetery fence looks like a ballet ...

Four Poems by Dmitry Blizniuk, Translated by Yana Kane

Translations

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Boss, we have a problem. I hear Little Gu’s frantic whisper through my walkie talkie. Little Gu is only three years out of college and already my best worker.  I survey our tables as I walk towards him. ...

Freedom by Catherine Wang

Fiction

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  A Romantic Love by Ádám Nádasdy   It began when I was nine years old. Don’t be so shocked, there’s love that can begin at such an age: little Dante was also just nine when he fell in love with Beatrice. When I ...

Nonfiction Short Story from I Slung My Hook by Ádám Nádasdy translated by Austin Wagner

Translations

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AMERICAN DIVA: EXTRAORDINARY, UNRULY, FABULOUS BY DEBORAH PAREDEZ Review by Catherine McNulty Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Publication date: May 21, 2024 ISBN: 9781324035305 Pages: 239   The Divas Electric, ...

AMERICAN DIVA: EXTRAORDINARY, UNRULY, FABULOUS BY DEBORAH PAREDEZ Review by Catherine McNulty

Book Reviews

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Arin and Rachel take shrooms on the same dayI skip my meds so we can all trip together.Every time I am sitting with friends on a blanket at Grange Park at 6pm drinking carton rosé I’m like,This is what I was born to ...

I Love My Friends by Rob Macaisa Colgate

Poetry

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Dedicated to Tortuguita* What if it was not Icarus who flew too high? Perhaps, instead, it was Daedalus who arced ever-upward, broad wings beating, too entranced by his own creation to turn around. Higher he went, ...

Sun Rise by Zack Fox Loehle

Flash Fiction

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  Her baby blew a spit bubble and reached for her with its squishy, underinflated arms, and they both giggled. She and her baby had been spending their days at the sticky, fluorescent food court in Glenwood Mall, which ...

NUMB-NUMB by Marc Tweed

Fiction

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WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WONDER By Maya C. Popa Review by Dustin Pickering Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. Publication Date: November  8, 2022 ISBN: 9781324076216 Pages: 96 Scripting the ...

WOUND IS THE ORIGIN OF THE WONDER By Maya C. Popa Review by Dustin Pickering

Book Reviews

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for A.E.M.There’s nothing obscure about our sorrow— no reason to coin new terms for this needto pace the suddenly bare room wailing,wadded tissues scattered ...

After Chemo Failed by Dawn Manning

Poetry

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Some time ago in a Sardinian literary magazine, La terra dei nuraghes, The Land of Nuraghes, I read this legend, charmingly recorded by Pompeo Calvia, one of the finest Sardinian writers.  It tells the story ...

 San Pietro of Sorres by Grazia Deledda translated by Anne Schuchman

Translations

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Hunter has been shutting himself in the home office lately, curling his body over the computer, losing himself in the steady rhythm of his work. His daughter, who seems equally set on self-isolating, won’t ...

Ducks & Epitaphs by Aimee Clemens

Fiction

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When in major chronic illness flare-ups or activated trauma states or brain fog arising for any number of reasons, I sometimes gain a stutter. Because of childhood trauma, I also have historically not been fantastic at ...

Stutter, Stammer, Stumble: On (Not) “Speaking Well” by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes 

Nonfiction, Uncategorized

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The Animal is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav Review by Shannon Vare Christine Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: Four Way BooksPublication Date: March 15, 2024ISBN: ‎ 978-1961897007Pages: 120 When it comes to pain, ...

The Animal is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav Review by Shannon Vare Christine, Interview by Tiffany Troy

Book Reviews

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ANSWERWe cook fish in the dark. All day I thinktoday is yesterday. I soak a video in saltwater. There I return tothe inky sea of childhood. There is nothing to eat. Spring fallsin layers: first the naked green ...

Two Poems by Julia Anna Morrison

Poetry

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There is a place in Ellen’s right big toe where she keeps her opinions on her mother.  Sealed shut.  Nail-chipped, ball-stubbed, doubly calloused, she wears socks most of the time.   In her ...

Ellen by Rya Vallabhaneni

Flash Fiction

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          Henri Meschonnic (1932-2009) is best known worldwide for his translations of the Old Testament and the 710-page Critique du rythme: Anthropologie historique du langage. He ...

Three Poems by Henri Meschonnic translated by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes

Translations, Uncategorized

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Long before he travels through the black hole, ripping the fabric of his life, they are looking for the perfect house, the sort of place you could raise a family on modest salaries. First, they have to say goodbye to ...

Inside a Black Hole by Andrew Bertainia

Fiction

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A narrow winding creek cuts through flat plains of sagebrush. Slender elms line the banks beneath granite cliffs still topped with snow in summer. The term “American Alps” gets thrown around about this place but ...

Heber by Kent Quaney

Nonfiction

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The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano  Review by Nicole Yurcaba Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: BOA Editions Publication Date: October 4 , 2022 ISBN: 9781960145352 Pages: 178 Over the Myths and Through ...

THE LAST SONG OF THE WORLD BY JOSEPH FASANO Review by Nicole Yurcaba, Interview by Tiffany Troy

Book Reviews

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It’s a sin to call the horses beautifulbut they were, their hooves a miracleflaring fire with each beat—I shouldn’t remember it this way,but it was August. Or December.Creepers choked trashcans & stucco,the ...

Only Once Driving to Cincinnati by Kirk Schlueter

Poetry

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I got a new smell. It’s oily, leathered, minklike. It turns heads on the bus, clears whole cars on the train. Most times it walks five paces ahead. I follow it into any number of restaurants or bars, sliding past ...

New Smell by Eric Cecil

Flash Fiction

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Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion. So he painted red over red over red. Behind the colour he was looking for light. In 1942 he painted The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Iphigenia is not a girl, but a black ...

Rothko/ On Fear by Ollie Cowley

Poetry

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Samuel and David were born in the same year at opposite ends: New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve. They only knew their birthdays because their mothers were able to labor in peace, and that’s something their mothers ...

Make by Misha S. McDaniel

Fiction

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“Mom.”  “Mom.”“Mom!”“Momma, look!”“Mom!“Look, Momma!”“Look!” My coffee will never be strong enough. I stir the pancake mix while the pan heats. A little bowl of concrete. The morning ...

You’re Gonna Miss It by Jen Eve Thorn

Flash Fiction

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It Will Have Been So Beautiful by Amanda Shaw  Review by Robert Dunsdon Publisher: Lily Poetry Review Publication Date: March 21, 2024 ISBN: 9781957755359 Pages: 92 It takes a degree of confidence, and no small ...

It Will Have Been So Beautiful by Amanda Shaw Review by Robert Dunsdon

Book Reviews

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boy to boy to the sidewalk, fingers that tingle like grass and touch. boy to boy to arms embracing and the streetlights all go out at once. boy to boy to hunger, to Yom Kippur, to Jewish holiday psalms and songs that ...

boy to boy to bed by Sam Herschel Wein

Poetry

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When I wake up, the world is upside down. The car is ragged plastic and skin-stained glass. Ryan’s body crumples against the passenger door, right arm bent around his back like he’s scratching a hard-to-reach itch. ...

it keeps going like that by Leah Francesca Christianson

Fiction

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Step 1:  Look down. It isn't. It is. View the absence. The dead space before realization. All the hands to mouths, eyes crowning, light like a holy orifice breaking open to speak what you've done. Look at your ...

How to Stop What Could be Born Inside of You by Maisie Williams

Nonfiction

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There was Christmas; there was Venice. Both arrived too late for us. The word, alluvione, meant flood but sounded less frightening, and—like everything in this country—it ran precipitously off our tongues. Then it ...

Alluvione by Vincent James Perrone

Flash Fiction

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So, this is just college, says M, age 11. It is, I say, looking around at what I look around at all the time, especially the space where the historic sycamore used to be. All the ghosts, probably.  I can’t say I have ...

Votive by Mary Ann Samyn

Nonfiction

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unalone by Jessica Jacobs Review by Deborah Bacharach Publisher: Four Way Books Publication Date: March 15, 2024 ISBN: 9781954245822 Pages: 208 Resee, Remix, Remake Take nothing for granted. In her second full ...

Unalone by Jessica Jacobs Review by Deborah Bacharach

Book Reviews

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Crack Let us be fog horns on a murky nightLet them call us flawed, bitchyLet them say you have a tailLet mystified children keep looking for itLet them be blind to the glittering trail we left behindLet them be ...

Three Poems by Gonca Özmen Translated by Jeffrey Kahrs and Mete Özels

Translations

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“Did I ever finish my story? I mean this woman was seriously one of the worst customers I’ve had in a while—a total hair-mare.” June nudges Laine, who nods but doesn’t look up from her nearly empty ...

Wig Shop by Rebecca Bernard

Fiction

History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian  Review by Alan Semerdjian Publisher: Fly on the Wall Poetry (October 22, 2021) Paperback: 86 pages ISBN: 1913211622 The Memory Singing: Shahe ...

History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian Review by Alan Semerdjian

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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