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...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 14, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: untitled by James Metelak DRIVER AND PASSENGER Michael Strahler, seventy-two years of age, backed his car out of the driveway. The car was equipped with a backup camera and an optional autonomous reverse control, but he eschewed them in favor of using the...
by JL Jacobs | Dec 12, 2018 | Short Fiction
Art: I think it’s time by Riikka Fransila A SPACE FOR INCONGRUITY Sartuum hurdled through nothing, enshrouded by a bright but empty sea of black. He had no frame of reference by which to calculate his velocity, but he could tell that with even the slightest...
