Regions | JOYLAND

Clothes Make a Man

Jessica Michalofsky -

Here is what I do: I drink a small vessel of sow’s blood. I do this quickly with my eyes closed, and tears...

Waiting for Women

Rebecca Rosenblum -

Colleen’s eyes were a flat silver-green, and her gaze rested on Theo as if he were a tree stump or a fire hydrant. “My...

Ballpark Figure

Rebecca Entel -

My brother Dyl’s always keeping me on my toes by pretending he doesn’t love me anymore. “Foul ball?” are the first two words he barks...

Guidelines for Flying: 3 Destinations

Samantha Cohen -

San Pedro, California Descend onto the rockiest beach you see, the one with the greatest differentiation in color among its rocks. The beach you choose...

Cry Baby

Kathryn Mockler -

It is an early Friday morning. The alley is quiet except for the shopping carts and the rattling cans and bottles of the bottle...

Something Special

Sarah Gilbert -

In the Gatineaus, where they’d rented a cottage, the days were an early summer medley of leaf green and lake green. It was the...

Collection Day

Kurt Gottschalk -

Xian took a paint marker and an old mini-cassette recorder from his pocket. “Second and C,” he said into the tape recorder. His work...

Babies

Ricco Siasoco -

More incredible things had happened, Hugo thought, than a man giving birth. Frogs were born with six limbs; praying mantises laid eggs in gummy...

Remarkable Unknown Short Men of Canadian History

Ryan Abbott -

Archibald Lewis Lee (b. 1830, Kingston, Upper Canada, d. 1899, Kingston, Ont.; 157 cm, 5’2”), personal secretary, speechwriter and dutiful assistant to Sir John...

The Hills

Kate Durbin -

Close up shot of office building on Wilshire Boulevard. The sky is blue behind the gray building. Interior shot of office. A woman stands...