by JL Jacobs | Apr 11, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: Welcome Museum Guests by Alex Duensing HIDING Frequently I’ll go away and hide. It makes me feel better about things. It’s not something that as a grown man I’m especially proud of, butI could be up to a lot worse. Sometimes I’ll tell my wife I’m going for a...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 4, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: j by Tobias Oggenfuss CAVE NIGHT The Zhejiangopterus Children fly into their cave after a long day. Their cave hole is high on a flat cliff face. Inside it is dark, damp and cold. They squish around in the mud until they find their magical tools. Do you like...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 21, 2018 | Fiction
Art: Moon by Mary Hanrahan IN THE BLUE HOUSE Inside the blue house, our house, everything is blue: the furniture, walls, and the general mood. We drink beer once in a blue moon and it is indeed Blue Moon. Even our humor is blue. We listen to old comedy records by Redd...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 16, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: Las Memorias que me Habitan by Marta Bonjour @martabonjour NON-BREED Monday night was the first time stepping into the pool hurt me. There was a swimming class beside me, swim caps like moonlit skulls in the clouds outside. A beautiful, indifferent lifeguard...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 7, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: IKEA Painting 6 by Alan Neider, @aneider52 THE LITTLE YELLOW HOUSE she calls it. A yellow as yellow as any Dutch daffodil. She steers her tan Audi Fox up the driveway and pauses in her car until her favorite Cat Stevens song ends. Yellow has been her favorite...
by JL Jacobs | Feb 5, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: Beyond the Plains of Eternity by Jolanda Richter, @jolandarichter THE ILLUSTRATED QUEENFISHER Headmistress Nielsen ripped the offending page from the book, then held it close to the girl’s face. Rather than flinching, the intended reaction, Pia grabbed the page...
