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¿4 "Fk / T e, personally, I am a writer,”
I % / 1 Jacob C.S. said early into our
X V Aconversation. It’s more than
just a hobby for Jacob; it’s a way to create
worlds where he can hide. He also tries to
be a voice for people who go unheard.
“Those like me who choose to just shun
everything to prevent getting burned or
hurt. There’s a logical explanation for that,”
he said. “It’s commonly viewed as irrational,
but in my view, it’s completely rational.”
Writing offers Jacob consistency in a
life marked by tumult He was born, and
primarily raised, in Portland. During
early childhood, he lived with his
mother, who moved him to Northern
California for a few years.
“Some families are not...” Jacob
trailed off. He raised his hands in
front of his face, fingers touching,
then pulled them apart, splaying his
fingers as he did. “My parents were
not supposed to be together in the
first place.”
Jacob sometimes has trouble
remembering things.
Sometimes, he
struggles to
remember how
to spell his
Inside the small circle of those he trusts,
own last name.
however, Jacob is known for his generosity.
“My intellect was worse off at a younger
age,” he said, and his mother
He describes himself as
was not equipped to raise him.
inventive and says he’s a gamer
Around age 13 or 14, he said, he On the streetor
and a comic fan. He loves his
went to live with his father.
"having friends cat, whom he named Magneto.
“He re-taught me everything
When he reads, he finds himself
Is a liability.
I know,” Jacob said.
drawn to dark narratives; his
If yon want to
He no longer has contact
favorite book series, which he
keep year stuff returns to again and again, is
with his mother, but he talks to
from
growing
his father and paternal
Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of
grandmother, both of whom live legs* don't
Unfortunate Events.”
in Portland.
Jacob’s writing style tends to
h a w friends/*
Now, Jacob “tends not to get
be dark, too. As is true for many
used to things,” he said, and he
writers, getting words on the
has difficulty trusting others. He has a place page sometimes feels grueling.
to sleep indoors, but still feels the need to
“It attacks the nerves to no end,” he said.
look over his shoulder. “For
“I’m happy one second, depressed one
certain street lives,
minute, snapping at people the next
you have to put up minute.” One of his first published pieces
a mental wall.
appeared in Write Around Portland’s spring
And for some,
2017 anthology “IUuminated by the Words/
it’s not a wall;
Iluminados por las palabras.” Jacob’s piece,
it’s what they
in keeping with his bleak worldview, was
become.
titled “Human Stupidity.” He’s also
Having friends published two pieces in Street Roots,
is a liability.
“Heretic” and “Confusion,” as well as
If you want
another in the spring 2018 Write Around
to keep your
Portland anthology, “A Wonder I Can Hold,”
stuff from
titled “Hour Glass.”
growing legs,
Titles are an important part of Jacob’s
don’t have
writing process. “I have no patience,” he
friends.”
explained. “If I give it a title, I will be going
back to i t ”
Jacob is still discovering what he likes.
Selling Street Roots is part of th at
“How I see things, if I get one sale, that’s
me thinking, OK, I can actually stay a t this
spot and sfee wherd^his goes - just from
one sale.” He sells the paper at the
Starbucks on Northeast 45th Avenue and
Glisan Street just down the road from
the first place he remembers living.
“The beauty of that spot,” he said,
“is that I’m the one that put it on the
map. No one had thought to use it.”
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