Acid in Georgia, by Jasmine Ledesma

Prose, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Acid in Georgia is Jasmine Ledesma’s debut chapbook which showcases her draw towards finding the needle in the haystack, the slivers of definitive beauty in everything else hideous. Her electric, bold and distinct style is on full display in these stories. From the initial story Arugula, which focuses on a woman beneath the influence of an unnamed memory disorder to the last story Goblin, a character study of a melancholic, astute girl living out her final days in a small, oblivious town. Through her work, Jasmine is not afraid to use unusual or provocative metaphors, and often prefers to splice her work with odd, striking images.