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Mark Jacobs

Fiction

Summer 2013

Snow Beers

By Mark Jacobs

Fin carried his father’s name. It was heavy and he resented the weight. After seven years of lugging it around, he went home to their cold city intending to drop […]

Fiction

Summer 1998

Dove of the Back Streets

By Mark Jacobs

On the morning of her fifty-fifth birthday Katrina Webern woke to the voices. She had endured a long silence, long enough to despair of ever hearing them again. One loses […]