“In these taut, revelatory, slyly wry tales of sinister neighbours, distracted mothers, careless dads, and bad friends, Mikka Jacobsen probes the darkness that lurks around the edges of childhood and young womanhood with a gaze as unflinching and unsettling as Heather O’Neill’s.” LISA ALWARD, author of Cocktail

“Jacobsen wields precise, sardonic prose to forge a suburban gothic landscape where dinner tables, buses, basements, holiday party karaoke hold the potential for both nefariousness and redemption. Her characters peddle in secrets that hover below the surface as these stories gloriously puncture our most primal human wounds.” ADÈLE  BARCLAY, author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You and Renaissance Normcore

“Mikka Jacobsen’s stories burn straight to the heart. . . . With wit, confidence and a delicious kind of dark humour, Jacobsen brings our deepest fears and desires to the surface  — and what a relief that is.” NADINE  SANDER-GREEN, author of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

Modern Fables

“These essays are wicked. As in wickedly good, wickedly funny, wickedly smart, but also just plain wicked. They will corrupt everything you thought you knew about love and relationships: they will make you suspicious of your friends and lusty for your enemies; you won’t trust anyone anymore ever except for Jacobsen herself as she crashes at rabbit-quick speed through all the ‘fables’ we tell ourselves about modern love and how to behave in this digital age. Jacobsen distinguishes herself from the very first sentence in the very first essay as a writing virtuoso. I love this book about love so, so, so much I can’t stand it.” SUZETTE MAYR, author of The Sleeping Car Porter and Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall

Mikka Jacobsen is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Calgary, Alberta. Her work has appeared in Joyland, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, subTerrain, Canadian Notes & Queries, The Missouri Review, and Lit Hub, among others. She has a PhD in English from the University of Calgary.