by JL Jacobs | Feb 20, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Art Feature, Artist Review, Painting, Prose
Installation view of The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy – The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Artist Nestor Topchy’s 124-portrait series The Iconic Portrait Strand was exhibited at The Menil Collection art museum in Houston,...
by JL Jacobs | Jan 23, 2025 | Art, Art and Painting, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Painting, Prose, Short Fiction
A Lone Tree Below Mt. Whitney by Kathleen Frank Sunshine Pie was originally published in the January 29, 2021 online edition of Everyday Fiction. Sunshine Pie “It’s left foot forward and two steps back.”Cecily looks at her feet. She’s six and a...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 19, 2024 | Fiction, Photography, Photography, Lifestyle and Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Bleak by Jiayi Ji A Sudden Passion It was the memorial for his father, a tedious, even boringly arranged affair which, in its paint-by- numbers planning and total lack of the unforeseen—so anticipated and prepared for had been the death itself—was...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 11, 2024 | Art, Fiction, Prose, Short Fiction
Orna by Alahna Alvé Knotted Thoughts Relaxing on her rocking chair in the veranda under the tiger-striped sky, Meena tries to enjoy the warmth of the sun’s rays caressing her creased cheeks. On close scrutiny, she finds the two close tall...
by JL Jacobs | May 28, 2024 | Lifestyle, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Photography, Prose
Snow on the Mountain by Rilla Askew Oklahoma Okla, “people” and humma, “red,” in Allen Wright’s Choctaw cognomenFor this heartland state where the Trail of Tears ended—not for CherokeesOnly, but for all Five Civilized Nations, for Sac and Fox,...
by JL Jacobs | May 14, 2024 | Art, Prose
Olvido by Alahna Alvé Versions There’s a color picture I found of the Astoria Hotel. Superimposed on it is a black and white photo with a Russian tank before the marquee. I found it online one night, months ago, too anxious to sleep,to come back...
