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...
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 | Apr 29, 2020 | Short Fiction
THE CROSSING By Maureen Mancini Amaturo The doctor said, “Soon now.” He said, “Maybe there are family members you’d like to call. Anyone close by who she would like to be here, who might want to be here?” At that moment, I stood in a vacuum, in isolation, as if...
