by JL Jacobs | Apr 24, 2017 | Fiction
Art Credit: “Untitled” by Alfonso Barberio SWISH Projects playgound— jump shot arcing from star to star Evening shadows steal across the low concrete buildings, the cracked-slab courtyards, over fast-food wrappers and bottle shards. He feels the air...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 24, 2017 | Fiction, Goncalves
Art Credit: “Someone Else’s Bed” by Andre Gonçalves YOU CANNOT TURN: HAIBUN BY RICH YOUMANS the key. it is in the ignition, and your fingers tense around its pebbled casing. but you cannot turn it; you cannot move. you have stalled at a...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 12, 2017 | Music
Art Credit: Marie Dashkova PARTY GIRL BY MYBLUESWEDEN “We chose this song because we feel it best fits the vibe for abstractmagtv: gorgeous and unexpected. That’s what we are going for, too. This song intentionally has an unconventional structure and swings.”...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 12, 2017 | Fiction
Art Credit: Martha Winterhalter FIRST VISIT TO CANYON COUNTRY BY RAY RASMUSSEN Friends, who on occasion join my outdoor adventures, suggest I should slow down, be in, not just move through a place. They complain that I hike too fast to enjoy the landscapes we passing...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 12, 2017 | Poetry and Article
FLASH FICTION: BRIEF AND (LIKELY) NECESSARY LITERATURE Alfred Polgar, a noted Viennese intellectual and master of the short form, makes a good case for the rising popularity and even necessity of modern-day flash fiction when he said during his own lifetime...
