Author: Jacob Guajardo

Jacob Guajardo lives in Gainesville, Florida. His work has appeared or is forthcoming at Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, The Blueshift Journal and elsewhere. Jacob is an aspiring harpist, a Tori Amos enthusiast, and a Cersei Lannister supporter.

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how you solved being alive

Natasha Mieszkowski interviews
Jacob Guajardo
 

Our fiction co-editor Natasha Mieszkowski recently had this exchange with Jacob Guajardo, our Issue #14 featured fiction author. Here’s what he had to say about the inspiration behind this piece, the writing advice he’s found most useful, and his evolution as a writer… Read more

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Fiction

Fiction Issue #14

"The Knot of Moonlight" by Bill Wolak, 11" x 8" Digital Collage, August 2015, Mud Season Review
"The Knot of Moonlight" by Bill Wolak, 11" x 8" Digital Collage, August 2015

We Have Commandeered Our Bodies to Science

By Jacob Guajardo
 

We are confined to a room day and night while the doctor runs tests, while we run out of stories to tell each other. We do not remember arriving. We remember only our lives before and not this room. Today the doctor hammers a bottle of lotion against his palm until it hisses, then gives up….
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