Regions | JOYLAND

We Together Clinging

Noah Canto -

I Jaden and I have been friends for two months. He likes soccer, I do not. But we like each other, so we spend recess...

The Island of Sodor

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry -

Korovin roused to a stench of cat piss pervading the bedroom. The cat was incorrigible. After a multitude of tests and checkups, which had...

Dead Animals

Amy Stuber -

Take me on a journey. Make me feel something. Surprise me. Make me change. Okay. Okay. A dead cat sits near a trash can in...

Allelopathy

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya -

Read my mind read my mind readmymindreadmymind, the mind reader’s wife thought. Her thighs tensed, neck sweated slick. The mind reader’s hand gripped her...

Act Like a Snit

Anne Kilfoyle -

Dad and I figured the dead cat had spent a full season wedged between tree branch and trunk. We didn’t notice until the leaves...

The Celebration

Courtney Balestier -

The idea had been to have a celebration. I've been dieting all week for this, the mother had said. I could kill for a...

lark

Joel Fishbane -

Whenever Lorean Saint-Pierre gives her history, the first thing she always says is how, when she was five, she made a list of the...

Strange Gifts

Celine Aenlle-Rocha -

We all begged old man Bertrand in turn, sitting in a circle with the smoke between us. But come Sunday morning there he was again,...

The Family Way

Christopher DiRaddo -

The year Paul turns 40, his friends Wendy and Eve ask him to help them get pregnant. Nothing about the process feels natural to...

Her Last Time in Dothan

Halle Hill -

Uncle Otis’ heart is swelling like a balloon. It’ll burst and he’ll die soon, Mama says. Mama talks on the phone to Aunt Loretta...