by JL Jacobs | Oct 16, 2026 | Art, Art and Painting, Nature, Painting, Prose, Prose and Painting
Yellow Lake by Judith Skillman Before This is the safe space, inside, before my passage into the unknown After. The rush of Mother’s blood and breath soothes me as I drift weightlessly in her womb. When I stretch, I feel the pressure of her hands...
by JL Jacobs | Mar 25, 2026 | Art, Fantasy/Fairy Tale, Fiction, Fiction and Art, Nature, Photography, Prose
Stockton Spring by Cela Xiè The Lost Wings Many years ago, in the fairy kingdom of Alatorna a sudden blight appeared, and no oneknew why. In the winter cold, fairy leaders speculated that some microbe had overwhelmedtheir people. Or maybe an invisible...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 6, 2025 | Art, Collage, Painting, Photography, Prose
Art: I Hear You Cindy the Sherman One of those dreams in which you are trying to get somewhere, your seats at a basketball game whereyou’ve left a friend stranded because you just simply can’t get from here (a crowdedbathroom, with a wet concrete floor)...
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...