Filip Jakab

Filip Jakab is a writer and editor based in Brussels. His short fiction has appeared in ExPat Press, at David Horvitz Garden and Damien & The Love Guru. In December 2024, Filip completed a creative writing program at Stanford University. He writes the Substack “life eats life”. Currently, he is working on his debut novel, a homoerotic thriller about a group of emotionally-crippled friends who embark on a sinister and deadly quest. His former dog, Buddy, lives still with his ex, A, in Prague.

VACUUM by Filip Jakab

“Choke me!” Vinnie yells. His skaterboi Gen-Z body—a pale, rampant, mangled flesh to be further detested, desolated, deprived. Though the flesh and bone he otherwise soothes with a daily intake of smoothies that include collagen, selected antioxidants, and protein powders. He drinks a lot of purified water. He’s one of the lost by-products of his generation.   He nourishes his Promethean body to the max so Sean can destroy it. He pumps it up twice, three times a week, with an unfuckable gym bro who goes by Dixon in the city center. Post-pump, they take dumb selfies (he never shows them to Sean)….

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