Short Story | JOYLAND

Pangaea

Jim Hanas -

Jeanie stared into the drawer beside her bathroom sink at all the foil disks ringed by plastic teardrops, each teardrop containing a tiny pill....

Cheekbone

Larissa Diakiw -

I told you over lunch, where Kaiser buns seemed to sprout cucumber through a sheet of spinach, what I thought about Alec Melnyk, the...

Sissy

Zoe Whittall -

1. Sauntering down Aisle 6 at the 24-hour Dominion grocery store, Lee is cradling an overly large zucchini. It sits inside the sleeve of his...

Hack

ROSE McCANN -

-1- The Jesuits place a high value on the written word, so much so that they hire an outsider to run the literary magazine....

Daughter (from Daughter)

Janice Lee -

It was insistent, the corpse, in the daughter’s careful execution of the process, as if the octopus was asserting its physical presence all the...

From Klara

Natalee Caple -

I’ll come back if you need me. I’ll know if you are feeling lost. And now it is night and you have left my...

My Revolutionary

Jennifer Krasinski -

I was once in love with a revolutionary who, for the life of him, could not tell a joke. He would omit important details...

The Telling

Marianne Apostolides -

George bought me a drink that afternoon — I think I told you that. I definitely told other people; I mentioned that detail whenever...

The Pump Twin

K. R. Sands -

Voices above the surface. Eight hours to remove the parasite’s internal organs . . . amputate . . . Who’s speaking? Talking about? Nervous system disorganized ....

Lungs

Gerard Olson -

Five miles away, we dream about going out to the swamps beyond the city, taking out our lungs and inflating them so they’ll lift...