Regions | JOYLAND

Summer of Hate

Chris Kraus -

excerpted from the forthcoming novel Summer of Hate PART ONE: 2005 1/CATT: HER KILLER There are some people who like feeling like they’ve arrived at the...

Kachunga Legs

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...

Margaritas with Roger

Holley Rubinsky -

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

Come When You Call Me

Courtney Elizabeth Mauk -

At eight o’clock in the morning, Alyssa shows up at Danny’s apartment door with a stack of bright yellow flyers. He has not...

Homesick: an excerpt

Robert J. Stevens -

Someone is stealing her dresses. They were only snake skins, snail shells, but he had wanted them. There was once a whole...

Happy Face

Brandon Graham -

Chapter 1: Perhaps a bit of an Overreaction For the hundredth time in ten minutes Flip cinches the terry cloth belt of his forest green...

Wonder Bred

John Cotrona -

“It’s a holy day.” “No it isn’t. It’s a regular day.” “Why are they marching us off to church then?” “So they can film us. They’re perverse.” One...

Kittens

Erika Thorkelson -

Around the time the kittens started going missing, I noticed a surplus of abandoned clothing in the streets. But maybe I’m mashing the two...

Toof or Else

Weston Cutter -

A few days ago Toof started up again, eating only a bit of dog food at a time. He’d race in from the living...

Apocalypse, as Viewed From the Family Room

Mark Paterson -

The TV is on mute so none of us know something is wrong until my brother notices the news desk has no anchorperson. “What’s...