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Somehow the shape of his life had gone all Picasso, but unintentionally. He had thought his college education and strong passions would lead him somewhere, anywhere, but things had gone astray, one idle job to the next, ...

Rooming With God by Andrew Bertaina

Fiction, LAR Online

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Plum by Andy Anderegg Reviewer: Kelly Dasta Publisher: Hub City Writers Project Publication Date: April 8, 2025 ISBN: 9798885740463 Page Numbers: 232  “There are no good stories in second person,” is something ...

Plum by Andy Anderegg Reviewed By Kelly Dasta

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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Poems From Part I of Uniformis: The Uniform of Flowers By Ileana Garma Translations by Allison A. deFreese * I dream my mother is dancing a sick dancegirls in white uniforms walk by her side my mother ...

Five Poems by Illeana Garma Translated by Allison A. deFreese

LAR Online, Translations

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  After dark, our father hides behind a lamppost, waiting. The streetlights stammer. Our father burns bright in the flicker, disappears, and returns, hunched and taking slugs off his flask. A ratty Toyota two-door ...

Dump Truck, Baby Brother by Patrick Strickland

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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Aspen leaves flutter to the still-green grass as our youngest child, Teddy, rambles through the yard, whacking the tree’s silvery trunk and mushrooms, sprung after a rare Wyoming rain, and our raspberry bushes, their ...

Yellow by Anemone Beaulier

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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PIXELIn photosI don’t lookany worse nowadaysit’s justthat for a beautifulphotoit’s necessaryto step backfrom meto retreatfarther and farthersome daythe photowill showa dot.and laterit toowill vanishPIXELНа ...

Three Poems by Alena Maksakova (Алена Максакова), translated by Yana Kane

LAR Online, Translations

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*Because I don’t believe in memoirs and because I was never the kind of precocious young person who is the sort of person whogrows up to become a writer, having kept meticulous and idiosyncraticrecords of their own ...

Brief Encounters with Famous Men by Kimberly Andrews

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Last month, Shamil’s younger brother Anand came to visit them. The day he arrived, he barreled through the door to Shamil and Maria’s apartment, dapped up his much shorter brother, then opened his arms toward the ...

Rapidly Evolving Creatures by Kumari Devarajan

Fiction, LAR Online

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It all begun in the toilet in the park. There was no pain. She first noticed the blood on the toilet paper. She looked down—the toilet bowl was filled with watery red liquid with several fleshy pieces floating in it. ...

Short Story by Todora Radeva Translated by Yana Ellis

LAR Online, Translations

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