Consulate | JOYLAND

World Peace Now

Lydia Conklin -

Logan walks up East Wash and joins the masses protesting Scott Walker’s anti-union bill. She wears the University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants’ Association t-shirt...

kinder garden

Imogene Mahalia -

I know myself in relative terms. The sun is yellow, as am I; her blood is red, and so is mine. This time of...

Date Night

Imogen Usherwood -

"This is nice." "So nice." Gianni’s was a small Italian place near Seb’s local tube station. It was reasonably affordable, served generous portions of pasta, and...

Birds of the Mountain

Iain Rowan -

It was one small moment, but that’s how everything like that always is. There was no reason for it to happen. The rock was...

A Stomach Full of Clenched Fists

Timea Sipos -

I’m on the toilet again when I answer my mother’s call, urine dripping out of me like hot sauce from a long-neck bottle. She...

Sienna

Brenna Gomez -

It is a hard thing to be a woman. Sienna dreams of the man who raped her when she was 18 and still a...

The Neighbor

Mikka Jacobsen -

Naomi and her friends are playing a game. They are in Naomi’s basement. Her mother rents the house, which is only half a house....

Ha-fu, Half, Halfie

Lin King -

The evening was a disaster. Danny’s date, Janet, had shown up in a revealing dress, a firework of greenish chiffon held together by zigzags of...

Blindness Pattern

Adrienne Chung -

>> There is a mathematical formula { R = e – t/s } which plots the erosion...

Lawn Enforcement

Monmita Chakrabarti -

Baba comes back to Dublin, Ohio from his two-week trip to Kolkata on a sunny Saturday afternoon. After hugging his family and taking his...