Rebecca Jung is a writer and poet who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Her work has been published in literary magazines, including: Sky Island Journal, Memoir, The Impetus, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania Review, Evening Street Review, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Not Very Quiet, The Write Launch, Sad Girls Club Lit, Flumes, and Purple Clover. Her work has also appeared in two books: Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh; and Burningword Ninety-Nine, A Selected Anthology of Poetry, 2001-2011.
She earned her B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in Art History from Kent State University.
Pasteboard Houses
In the 1950s, you could tell you were getting close to Akron before you saw it—an acrid smell of burning rubber and sulfur permeated everything. Tall brick smokestacks above dark, dingy tire factories coughed up oily black soot that coated everything—your clothes, your hair, even the insides of your nostrils.
Short Story
Issue 55
Sweet Retribution
They say that good cooks don’t measure anything, that they have an innate ability to know how much of each ingredient to use. They say that good cooks have signature dishes for which they’re renowned.
As a seven-year old, my criteria for culinary perfection was the ability to make macaroni and cheese and graham-cracker-white-icing sandwiches with so much icing it squeezed out the edges of the cracker when you bit into it. My mom made good macaroni and cheese and graham-cracker sandwiches. And fudge.
Creative Nonfiction
Issue 26
Rebecca Jung
Rebecca Jung is a writer and poet who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Her work has been published in literary magazines, including: Sky Island Journal, Memoir, The Impetus, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania Review, Evening Street Review, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Not Very Quiet, The Write Launch, Sad Girls Club Lit, Flumes, and Purple Clover. Her work has also appeared in two books: Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh; and Burningword Ninety-Nine, A Selected Anthology of Poetry, 2001-2011.
She earned her B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in Art History from Kent State University.
Pasteboard Houses
In the 1950s, you could tell you were getting close to Akron before you saw it—an acrid smell of burning rubber and sulfur permeated everything. Tall brick smokestacks above dark, dingy tire factories coughed up oily black soot that coated everything—your clothes, your hair, even the insides of your nostrils.
Short Story
Issue 55
Sweet Retribution
They say that good cooks don’t measure anything, that they have an innate ability to know how much of each ingredient to use. They say that good cooks have signature dishes for which they’re renowned.
As a seven-year old, my criteria for culinary perfection was the ability to make macaroni and cheese and graham-cracker-white-icing sandwiches with so much icing it squeezed out the edges of the cracker when you bit into it. My mom made good macaroni and cheese and graham-cracker sandwiches. And fudge.
Creative Nonfiction
Issue 26