by JL Jacobs | Mar 13, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Cyril Larvor NO LONGER IN A HURRY She was in a hurry, as usual. Turning the corner, she bumped into something soft and unyielding, and when she glanced up, she found herself face to face with a clown who stood totally still. The only thing in motion was the...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 8, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Peeking Through a Window by Caitlin Carter THE ROOMING HOUSE Katya was living in a dilapidated rooming house, in a decaying part of Chicago. At one time this house had been her home. The people who lived there were happy and used her establishment every time they...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 4, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: shapes2 by Nathan Johnson THE BUM STEER The Bum Steer is a bar tucked in a strip mall parking lot off a country road only a few miles from civilization. Light years. Decades. Enough distance and time hollowed from the living to melt reality when you walk...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 16, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Elina Ghanbari GOOD NIGHT When Tom walked into his kitchen it was lit by the same fluorescent light he’d left on when he went to the bar. It was part of the ritual. Leave the light on so that Drunk-Tom could find his way into bed at around 1am. It drove the...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 7, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Alone at the Lake from Here & Gone by kerry rawlinson NOOR By Yassmeen Al-Khouli Translated from the Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim His eyes could not believe what they saw when he quietly entered her room. His once resplendent angel was now curled up...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 4, 2019 | Art, Short Fiction
Art: Malawi from Ningaloo Series by Alyson Gurney PASSPORT we ate lunch on the grass in Borodino, laughing, photographing our mates in their dramatic reenactment of the famous battle scene. before hitting the road we used the bathroom – a barn with a hole...
