Mutant

By Mitchell Jacobs

Exclusively available in the print edition of Gulf Coast issue 29.2

Mitchell Jacobs is a poet and comics artist from Minnesota. He is an M.F.A. candidate at Purdue University and managing editor of Sycamore Review. His work appears in Lumina and Pinball.

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29.2 - Summer/Fall 2017

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