by JL Jacobs | Sep 14, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Blue Sea by Britnie Walston Catherine When Mom and I arrived, you hid the donut behind the picture.You sat in the sunny kitchen, embarrassed that you’d been caught with a sweet.My mother tsk-tsked as you deflected our attention to the...
by JL Jacobs | Sep 7, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art: Johnstown Flood by Paul Luikart Tapping Out Technically, practice ended five minutes earlier, but every Thursday Coach Ian offered to take on any student, setting aside the Emirates Athletic Conference wrestling rules (and its code of...
by JL Jacobs | Aug 3, 2022 | Art, Fiction
Art by Cyril Larvor Singing Tibetan Bowl We were at the Princeton University Campus, racing to class through the quad. I spotted you ahead on the sidewalk, in your fast lane. You were a bright red Corvette of a man, speeding one hundred and twenty miles...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 15, 2022 | Art, Short Fiction
Art: Life Strains by John Hansen The Man Inside At Christmas, Nick dresses as Santa. He likes pretending to grant wishes. They give him somesemblance of decency. He looks dignified, not like the thirty-year old drunk, son of a runawayfather, a mother who buried...
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...
