Excerpt (Fiction) | JOYLAND

Kate McQuade -

The game is Spin the Bottle. But now that we’ve emptied the bottle, whiskey’s casting amber blurs across the front-yard dusk, and our voices...

Carl Lavigne -

Ira Dubois was coming back to tell his father’s grave he was gay. Well, gay enough. Bisexual. He would say it didn’t matter if...

Antonia Angress -

Louisa’s first assignment at Wrynn College of Art was paint home. She’d left home a week ago, and now, as she looked out the...

Rachel Hanson -

Teagan arrived in Hailey, Idaho, quickly finding work in a café where elk meatloaf and venison stew was a local standard. She had read...

Amy Shearn -

The Brooklyn Collection of the Central Library was one of the few remaining places in the world—or at least in New York City, which...

Rachel Harrison -

The following is an excerpt from Rachel Harrison’s novel The Return, available now. It was around then that it really started to eat at me,...

Alexandra Chang -

The following is an excerpt from Alexandra Chang’s debut novel ...

Joyland Magazine -

Florida 1996 My dad wanted to call me Paloma, but my mom couldn’t get the Texas twang out...

Luisa Colón -

Sometimes through my veil of hair, I caught sight of my former best friend Nadia in the halls, wearing our school’s varsity jacket with Class...

Robert Haller -

I wasn’t a bad girl. None of it had been my idea. Under the gazebo in the ...