Consulate | JOYLAND

Lori Hahnel -

She would always be alone. Like her parents. From childhood’s hour, she felt, she dreamt, that she had not been as others were, was...

Holly Flauto Salmon -

I watched the road, the lines, the median, and the trees. I drove beside a bicyclist, and I could feel the steering wheel wanting...

Jonathan Papernick -

She had seen that clouded look before, a determined mix of pity and revulsion and something else she could not define. It was there...

Michelle Miller -

Margene is all the way out of bed and into the bathroom before she realizes what day it is. It's Gladys who reminds her....

Peter Darbyshire -

Nickel takes everyone in the office on a corporate retreat for the day. We go to Gun World, an indoor shooting environment in the...

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...

Holley Rubinsky -

The time after a party when she and Roger lay together on the rug in his living room, under the...

Andrew Kaufman -

1 The woman who couldn’t keep her feelings to herself The limousine taking Rebecca Reynolds and Lewis Taylor to the funeral had stalled in...

David Ross -

The reason I ended up alone in Marta’s closet was that being caught by her parents would have changed everything, and in those days...

George Bowering -

I couldn’t set pins with my arm in a cast, and I was surprised by how much I missed it, at least for the...