by JL Jacobs | Aug 12, 2019 | Short Fiction
CURFEW When there’s a window in the street, don’t stand near the shooting. Our greatest performance is being still. Not to have fun but to imagine having fun. Yoke on the horizon. Cats hiding food with their teeth, like artists, unable to do things as others do. If...
by JL Jacobs | Jul 24, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Side Door by Caitlin Carter Ask About Our Daily Specials! At the Molotov Cocktail, we serve Irish Car Bombs all day, and our napkins are rags soaked in kerosene. Disasters unspool on our high-definition televisions in surround sound – floods, riots, mass...
by JL Jacobs | Jun 7, 2019 | Short Fiction
Art: Moving 1 by Caitlin Carter ILLUSION Shortly after having gone the rounds of his clients, Makoto parked his car in the parking lot of a convenience store beside a small park and bought a sandwich for his lunch and a pack of cigarettes. Blue hydrangea flowers in...
by JL Jacobs | Apr 1, 2019 | Poetry
Art: Hollow Mountain by Caitlin Carter THE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION ACT “Beauty Belongs to All The People”— Lyndon & Lady Bird Johnson Highway Beautification Act, 1965 Shady: (v.) beyond logic, bias of older, established trees i. Trucks pass, the first of that...
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...
