Ghost in the Rain: Stories, by Matthew Jakubowski

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

In these 12 microfictions and flash stories, Matthew Jakubowski traces a terrain of otherworldly-ness populated by lost ghosts, haunted lovers, immortal siblings, amorous trees, and undead pandemic parents, each reflecting a facet of our changing world’s natural beauty.

Rich with gothic humor, surreal flourishes, and poetic fracturing, these stories address mortality and vulnerability with a steady belief in the mess of human intimacy, the risks and value in the eternally creative act of loving wildly and unconditionally.

With Ghost in the Rain, we see the elusive moments in life refusing to vanish, enduring the elements of our world and our hearts, gaining greater meaning to move us closer to the core of who we each are and who we are meant to be.

Matthew Jakubowski is a multi-genre writer based in Philadelphia. His stories have been anthologized in Best Microfiction, longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50, and appear in many literary journals worldwide, including Identity Theory, gorse, Scaffold, 3:AM Magazine, Gone Lawn, Necessary Fiction, Doric Literary, and Milk Candy Review. For more information, visit mattjakubowski.com.