diff --git a/bolt/factory.py b/bolt/factory.py
index e8e781b..84e6699 100644
--- a/bolt/factory.py
+++ b/bolt/factory.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from bolt.local.construct import ConstructLocal
 from bolt.spark.construct import ConstructSpark
+from bolt.localspark.construct import ConstructLocalSpark
 
 constructors = [
     ('local', ConstructLocal),
-    ('spark', ConstructSpark)
+    ('spark', ConstructSpark),
+    {'localspark', ConstructLocalSpark}
 ]
 
 def wrapped(f):
diff --git a/bolt/localspark/__init__.py b/bolt/localspark/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b92ee4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bolt/localspark/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+class LocalRDD(object):
+    """
+    A simple, inefficient, approximation for a locally stored RDD object (a lazy list)
+    """
+    def __init__(self, kv_list, fcn_to_apply = None):
+        """
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        kv_list : list
+            the list of key value pairs
+        fcn_to_apply : function
+            the function that should be applied, ndarray -> ndarray
+        """
+        self.kv_list = kv_list
+        self.lazy_fcn_list = [] if fcn_to_apply is None else fcn_to_apply
+        self.cached_list = None
+        
+    def map(self, c_func):
+        return LocalRDD(self.kv_list, fcn_to_apply = self.lazy_fcn_list + [c_func])
+    
+    def mapValues(self, c_func):
+        return self.map(lambda (a,b): (a,c_func(b)))
+    
+    def flatMap(self, c_func):
+        return self.map(c_func).map('flatten')
+    
+    def mapPartitions(self, c_func):
+        """
+        Make artificial partitions and executes the function on each one
+        """
+        return self.map(lambda (k,v): c_func([(k,v)]))
+    
+    def partitionBy(self, numPartitions, partitionFunc):
+        """
+        The current operations need to be executed before they can be handed off to the partition function
+        """
+        return LocalPartitionedRDD(self.collect(), partitionFunc)
+    
+    def values(self):
+        return self.map(lambda (_, v): v)
+    
+    def first(self):
+        return self.collect()[0]
+    
+    def collect(self):
+        if self.cached_list is None:
+            self.cached_list = LocalRDD.expand(self)
+        return self.cached_list
+    
+    @property
+    def context(self):
+        # making a new one is easier
+        return LocalSparkContext()
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def expand(curRDD):
+        last_list = curRDD.kv_list
+        for c_func in curRDD.lazy_fcn_list:
+            if c_func == 'flatten':
+                out_list = []
+                for i in last_list: 
+                    out_list += i
+                last_list = out_list
+            else:
+                last_list = map(c_func, last_list)
+        return last_list         
+
+class LocalPartitionedRDD(object):
+    
+    def __init__(self, kv_list, partitionFunc, part_rdd = None):
+        """
+        Creates a partitioned RDD which supports mapPartitions and values operations
+        
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        kv_list : list[(k,v)]
+            the list of key values
+        partitionFunc : function
+            apply to the keys to put them in distinct partitions
+        part_rdd : dict
+            to supply the already partitioned dataset with keys as the partition ids
+            and values as the partition contents
+        """
+        if part_rdd is None:
+            self.part_rdd = defaultdict(list)
+            for (k,v) in kv_list:
+                self.part_rdd[partitionFunc(k)]+=[(k,v)]
+        else:
+            self.part_rdd = part_rdd
+        self.partitionFunc = partitionFunc
+        self.kv_list = kv_list
+    
+    def mapPartitions(self, c_func):
+        new_part_values = {}
+        new_kv_list = []
+        for partName, partValues in self.part_rdd.iteritems():
+            new_values = c_func(partValues)
+            new_part_values[partName] = new_values
+            new_kv_list += new_values
+        return LocalPartitionedRDD(new_kv_list, self.partitionFunc, part_rdd = new_part_values)
+    
+    def values(self):
+        return LocalRDD(self.kv_list, [lambda (_, v): v])
+
+class LocalSparkContext(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+    def parallelize(self, in_list, npartitions = 0):
+        return LocalRDD(in_list)
+    
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bolt/localspark/construct.py b/bolt/localspark/construct.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c1d388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bolt/localspark/construct.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+from bolt.construct import ConstructBase
+from bolt.spark.construct import ConstructSpark as cs
+import numpy as np
+from bolt.localspark import LocalSparkContext
+
+
+class ConstructLocalSpark(ConstructBase):
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def array(a, context=None, axis=(0,), dtype=None, npartitions=None):
+		return cs.array(a, context = LocalSparkContext(), axis = axis, 
+                        dtype=dtype, npartitions=npartitions)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def ones(shape, context=None, axis=(0,), dtype=np.float64, npartitions=None):
+        return cs.ones(a, context = LocalSparkContext(), axis = axis, 
+                       dtype=dtype, npartitions=npartitions)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def zeros(shape, context=None, axis=(0,), dtype=np.float64, npartitions=None):
+        return cs.zeros(a, context = LocalSparkContext(), axis = axis, 
+                        dtype=dtype, npartitions=npartitions)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def concatenate(arrays, axis=0):
+        return cs.concatenate(array, axis = axis)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _argcheck(*args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Check that arguments are consistent with localspark array construction.
+
+        Condition is
+        (1) keyword arg 'context' is the string 'fake'
+        """
+        
+        return kwargs.get('context', '').find('fake')>=0
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _format_axes(axes, shape):
+        return cs._format_axes(axes, shape)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _wrap(func, shape, context=None, axis=(0,), dtype=None, npartitions=None):
+        return cs._wrap(func, shape = shape, context = LocalSparkContext(), axis = axis, 
+                        dtype = dtype, npartitions = npartitions)