Excerpt (Fiction) | JOYLAND

Excerpt: Binary Star

Sarah Gerard -

We’re kicked out of the party and John follows a few steps behind me toward the subway. I keep my eyes on the ground...

Excerpt: Temple Grove

Scott Elliott -

Excerpted from Temple Grove, a novel by Scott Elliott, published by University of Washington Press. 1 Trace strapped her two-month-old son Paul into the rear-facing infant...

25,000 Wishes

Taylor Basso -

Julio and Amelia have done everything they can to ignore the ladybug infestation. As dozens multiply into hundreds, it becomes increasingly difficult. Amelia presses...

Excerpt from “The Lighthouse Road”

Peter Geye -

The Lighthouse Road is available now from Unbridled Books. 1. (November 1896) Some ancient cold had taken root in Thea Eide’s belly, a feeling she’d not...

Hotel Palestine

Tom Paine -

JORDAN A few days after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Ann Prendergast left the hospital after a miscarriage. She slipped over the border...

The Bad Arts: an excerpt

Aaron Peck -

Bernard went to the nearest liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. He had been invited for a dinner party at Jeremy Croft’s...

The Little Shadows: an excerpt

Marina Endicott -

Gentry Fox was the shortest man Clover had ever seen, shorter than she was by far. As if someone had pressed down on the...

The Blue Light Project: an excerpt

Timothy Taylor -

A controversial talent show involving children is midway through taping when a...

Runaway: an excerpt

Christopher Russell -

An Incomplete Kingdom of Monsters Phylum: Monsters That Cannot Be Seen Class: Invisible Monsters Order: Fully and Constantly Invisible Fully and constantly invisible monsters are the...

Ricky’s Shoulders: an excerpt

Blake Butler -

in the room there below Ricky, Ricky saw his mother’s newer size, Ricky’s mother’s body had quadrupled in the weird light off the wall,...