Lara Longo

Feb 29, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Aozora Brockman |Alexandra Ye |Lara Longo

The family lore goes like this: a fish fell from the sky. Then there was another, and that one was me. And what kind of fish was she? someone would ask, egging my father on. He’d grin. A sel-fish, he’d say, what else? As if this were the only truth there ever was. Here’s what really happened: I was supposed to be a twin but then I ate her. It. Absorbed it, for nutrients, in like the first trimester. Dad got a kick out of that. Let’s never let her live that down, he said to Mom. And they haven’t.

Sep 1, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Mary Pappalardo |Lara Longo |Di Jayawickrema |Mimi Wong

Lara Longo’s “Motherland” was published in The Offing’s Fiction department on March 2, 2023.Q&A conducted by Mary Pappalardo, Fiction Editor. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with The Offing contributor Lara Longo and receive other perks as well. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all of our supporters in sustaining our work.

Jul 27, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Liwen Xu |Lara Longo |Alexandra Ye

In the end, God kept the Heavens but not the Earth, collapsing empires and skyscrapers upon skyscrapers stacked high in Hong Kong, New York, Dubai, and other cities we’d forgotten the names for. All the lights of Earth dimmed, shut down, and descended into a darkness as vast as starless nights. In the end, God lifted us up into the sky, perhaps on arks, perhaps in fever dreams, and we remained asleep as we floated up, dreamless and still.

Jun 22, 2023 | theoffingmag.com | Derek Owusu |Lara Longo |Paige Clark

CHANGEAnansi, the weight of the world can never fall on the sky, so this is why your father has no empathy for me. Does he sleep to my stories or are you weaving words without care? Creep to his bedside and wake him with these pleas, and I’ll wait for the raindrop that proves his sympathy. 1The distance behind us pulled itself into shapes in motion – something trying to be free and the night exposing something troublesome.