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Sarah Edwards -

Late one night, many years ago, a girl wearing tiny jean shorts and a daisy crown knocked on our door. We heard Daddy’s heavy...

Chelsea Bowlby -

Rikesh, Gwen’s fiancé, wanted her to shut up. When you survive a mass shooting, at first, everyone wants to talk to you about it....

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....

Nicole Hebdon -

My husband isn’t dead, but he needs to be. That’s what they tell me in the church basement. I’m sitting on the Vesselite emblem....

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...

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...

Sara Kachelman -

Four heterosexuals decided to carve a roast. They were Peg and her husband Pat and Fawn and Fawn’s husband Dick. The husbands had formed...

Andrea Harper -

The air out here is dry and thin, and when the wind picks up, sharp little parts of earth scatter around, looking for the...

Cameron Shenassa -

Roommates were going through a rebrand. No longer were they just companions for the lonely, the infirm, the elderly. Now, a Roommate was perfect...

Muriel Leung -

"To Molt and to Love" was selected by Joyland editors as a finalist in the 2021 Open Border Fiction Prize. When Shin thinks about...