A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in the West Edmonton Mall courtyard. A lonely neuropsychology student steals cocaine from his lab rat in an effort to impress a Tinder date. A group of teenage girls play a dangerous game and discover a portal to another reality.

Good Victory explores the strangeness and absurdity of being human in the twenty-first century: high school dances, teen pregnancy, and the continued cultural relevance of Wayne's World; fatalistic obsessions with karaoke bars and Dolly Parton; supposed pimps hiding under the Calgary Stampede watchtower. Both unsettling and illuminating, these stories shine light in dark places.

(From Freehand Books)

Good Victory is available in February 2025.

Mikka Jacobsen is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Calgary. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Joyland and The Fiddlehead. Her debut collection of essays Modern Fables was published in 2022.