Nonfiction | JOYLAND

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 Pull of Fear

Marjorie Wolfe -

The August before Olive was born, rough waves I used to jump into when I wasn’t pregnant taunted me. You can not come in....

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...

Driving in the Dark

Georgia Cloepfil -

I am behind the wheel because you said you didn’t want to drive in the dark and the only way you would agree to...

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...

A Privileged Psychosis

Patricia Kelly Yeo -

The white woman on my laptop screen speaks in soothing, low tones, her voice plodding and patient as a doting elementary school teacher. She...