by JL Jacobs | Jul 29, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
Art: Out of the Blue Boy by Gabriel Embeha Kakku “Get to Shore” We floated lifeless among pieces of our lives. Sky and sea were black. The wind had died down a bit, the current curled ‘round our waists and pushed us further and further into the unknown. By morning...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 24, 2020 | Photography, Short Fiction
Amara’s Dream (the Lithopedion) By Alexander Dickow For twenty days Penina’s son is born, which is to say Amara’s. The Sisters came in their coral raiment, and the woodcutters; each hand drunk with oblations: garlic cloves, a selection of mismatched buttons, a faded...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 17, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
Millie and Me Two girls bounce a ball as I watch through the two panes. A bicycle lies beside a circle of tarmac where a playground roundabout once spun. A boy climbs a steel frame and a woman carries a plastic bag across the courtyard. Above them, an old man...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 10, 2020 | Art, Short Fiction
It’s Death That Brings us Spring It’s late December at Tule Lake, in Northern California, near the Oregon border. We hunt quail and cottontail. All morning we fight crossfire snow against its attempt of immutability. This is the day I will discover that...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 3, 2020 | Art, Fiction
Art: Road by Oksana Reznik Congrats & Prayers Because it’s my birthday, I pour another Maker’s Mark. Two fingers, though one’s sympathetic to the eczema blister on my middle knuckle, the whiskey aligned with the peak of that stress-induced hump, gaining me...
by JL Jacobs | May 27, 2020 | Art, Fiction
Art: After the Rainbow by Oksana Reznik Fever Dream Within an instant everything else faded out into the background, and they felt the universe shift into place. They had not been aware that it was not harmonious before. “I’ve met you,” she said. “I...
