by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Painting, Poetry
My Neighborhood by Hyewon Cho Borders Just as our pigment was a barrier, so was my father’s education, and we lived in the shadow between two trees. For many years, we were the only dark faces in the neighborhood, embraced by some, shunned by...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 19, 2024 | Fiction, Photography, Photography, Lifestyle and Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Bleak by Jiayi Ji A Sudden Passion It was the memorial for his father, a tedious, even boringly arranged affair which, in its paint-by- numbers planning and total lack of the unforeseen—so anticipated and prepared for had been the death itself—was...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 11, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Orna by Alahna Alvé Knotted Thoughts Relaxing on her rocking chair in the veranda under the tiger-striped sky, Meena tries to enjoy the warmth of the sun’s rays caressing her creased cheeks. On close scrutiny, she finds the two close tall...
by JL Jacobs | May 6, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Short Fiction
A Night to Remember by Brea’n Thompson Swallowing Beauty She used to sleep in a sad little alley, wrapped in her favorite heap of trash bags. Everything changed when Mr. Mayor invited her to tea. Said an uncle she never knew gave her...
by JL Jacobs | Oct 11, 2023 | Art, Fiction, Short Fiction
Alluring Fascination Is This Enclosure Impenetrable by Todd Brugman Approaching Hysteria, Illinois This is the city in which time converges, an unstable zone where back then is now again as it will be soon. Everything crashes together, spume...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 8, 2023 | Art, Fiction, Short Fiction
Art: Thrallment of Reincarnation by Eric Chamberlain A Bolt is not a Screw It’s a bolt. Its threads are coarse or fine, the little ridges wide | | | | or narrow |||| depending on how tight youwant to be bound with me. They hold things together through...
