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...
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...
