Essay | JOYLAND

Portrait of a Prisoner

M. Sullivan -

Image, ink on paper “Watch your step, n.d.” courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery Joe Massey - 75209: a name and a number. An odd signature—odd even...

The Featherweight

Amanda Oliver -

A bird with one gnarled leg and foot came to visit my bird feeder every morning last February. I was getting up around five...

And It Was Running Thin

Claire Phillips -

Excerpted from A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia The rift between my mother and I intensified as the accusations...

Mine

Shannon Ratliff -

June 2016 When your lover leaves you and you slide down the tilted tiled shower wall, know that you weren’t the first to do so....

The Shape of Walking

Victoria Livingstone -

When my daughter was a newborn, I walked in loops. I pushed her in the stroller in circles around the reservoir, around the park,...

Some Thoughts About Writing About Love While the World Falls Apart

Sasha Fletcher -

If I’m being perfectly honest, I don’t know what else to do. The sea is rising and so is the temperature. 836,000 people have...

Festival of Lights

Hannah Fischer -

What I didn’t know about Justilien Gaspard when I heard he was dying alone in Mexico was that he was gay. That he was...

The Travel

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto -

Nothing creates lifelong memories and family experiences like travelling. There are three, maybe un-generalized, stages in any travel: the preparation, the journey, and the...

Visions of Tom

Paul McAdory -

A few nights ago I had a sex dream about Tom Brady. I have never been a fan of the Patriots but there I...

The Confluence of Birds, Language, and Mammals

Mildred K Barya -

The Confluence of Birds, Language, and Mammals 1 Hummingbirds are my favorite. I love their iridescent plumage, but I think I’d be a mockingbird were I...