Outside Freezer / Neil Jacobs

NeilJacobsNeil Jacobs’ thirty-year career as a psychologist working with leaders, teams, and organizations causes him to reflect daily on the complexity of the human condition. He carries this into his writing. Neil’s evolution as a writer has been informed by workshops at the Fine Art Works Center in Provincetown, MA under the tutelage of authors such as Garrard Conley and Mira Jacob, and writing courses at Grub Street in Boston. He recently finished his first novel, a family saga between two sets of neighbors set in the North of England.

Last Ride / Shawn Yager

Shawn Yager is an educator who lives in the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire. He has previously published flash, short stories, and poems both online and in print. He considers himself a “pantser” who tries to write rough drafts as spontaneously as possible. Of course, this produces many false-starts and much hair-pulling.

Fire Demon / Emily Dolanova

The cover illustration for 3rd Wednesday’s fall issue is a digital drawing by Emily Dolanova of the Czech Republic. The issue, due near the end of September, will feature the winners and honorable mention stories from our annual George Dila Memorial Flash fiction Contest, judged this year by John F. Buckley.

An Elegy for Our Brothers / T. Cutler

Talia Cutler attends Trinity College majoring in English Language and Literature. She hails from East Coast soil – the metamorphic stuff and continental margins, not the sandy parts. She often writes herself into corners and is in pursuit of things that are beautiful, such as large bowls of apples, crosswords, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. She has previously been published in Rainy Day Cornell, The JAR, and has won two Scholastic Writing Awards. She enjoys em dashes, oxford commas, and David Foster Wallace.