by JL Jacobs | Apr 6, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Abstract Feelings by KJ Williams This piece of flash fiction is part of a collection of short stories and poems in which the narrator is the principal caretaker of her younger sister while struggling with her own mental health issues. The...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 2, 2021 | Art, Fiction
Art: Jane Desonier Eurydice Emerges into the Light so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back—H.D., “Eurydice” I can relate to the poet H.D.’s interpretation of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I have (more than once) fallen in love with...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 4, 2021 | Art, Fiction
Art: Cryil Larvor LOVE BY DISTRACTION by Norbert Kovacs The man likes the other woman as much as he does his wife. He smiles over it when he buys his lover flowers as a surprise. He sets the bouquet in a vase in her apartment before they go make...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 16, 2020 | Photography, Short Fiction
Art: Untitled by Marie Dashkova An illustrated story that personifies 2020 and 2021 as an age gap couple. The characters represent our anxieties and aspirations as the year shifts from old to new. Young Year is fresh-faced and smells of hope and pink champagne. She is...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
Art: Out of the Blue Boy by Gabriel Embeha Kakku “Get to Shore” We floated lifeless among pieces of our lives. Sky and sea were black. The wind had died down a bit, the current curled ‘round our waists and pushed us further and further into the unknown. By morning...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 24, 2020 | Photography, Short Fiction
Amara’s Dream (the Lithopedion) By Alexander Dickow For twenty days Penina’s son is born, which is to say Amara’s. The Sisters came in their coral raiment, and the woodcutters; each hand drunk with oblations: garlic cloves, a selection of mismatched buttons, a faded...
