Gideon Jacobs Gideon Jacobs contributes fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, and others. He is currently working on a novel about images.

Aliens | Fiction

Gideon Jacobs

John removes Jacob’s mask and jacket so his son can play in the playground unencumbered, and then, alone on a bench away from other parents, composes a sext to a woman who is not his wife. He wants the sext to be good. He wants it to be sexy. He wants to increase his deviancy by the rightsized increment, large enough that she will be surprised by the advance, small...