by JL Jacobs | Feb 3, 2020 | Short Fiction
A Life I remember when she first asked me. We were sitting by the water of the lake, waiting for her boyfriend. It was cold. She made me promise we would go together, get on a plane together and fly away to Norway. She said, “Baby.” She said, “Please, let me go soon.”...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 31, 2020 | Short Fiction
Neshamele She is listening to love songs. She steps inside them and swims through her ears, breath held, and comes out the other side falling. She wants to find herself in the violence but she is never there, so she picks another fight with you, pressing into your...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 27, 2020 | Short Fiction
Let the Light Shine Through the Cracks “Did you come up here to sleep with me?” Charles asks when he sets the cup of coffee in front of me. “Did I miss that? Was I not supposed to actually make you coffee?” Charles is unlike any man I have...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 20, 2020 | Fiction
Anna disappeared slowly and then all at once. A gradual slipping away, the sort of which that when her neighbors and friends finally noticed, they couldn’t say exactly when they had last seen her. It had started with her divorce from Smith — that was his...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 15, 2020 | Fiction
Underneath It All It’s November and I’m in the Costa Mesa Target perusing the wall of men’s underwear for my husband and son—Boxers? Jockeys? Gray? Blue? Plaid?—when a woman in her 40s, 50s, maybe older, approaches. She’s in loose jeans and a white V-neck T-shirt. Her...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 23, 2019 | Short Fiction
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