Regions | JOYLAND

The Mother

Rebecca Nakaba -

She is not Laika. Laika was before. Laika was well into adulthood when they took her off the streets, Laika they had to beat...

The Resurfacing

Nivedita Barve -

This is a rambling account of my recent travel, even if I am writing it in an email. I wouldn’t specify such a thing...

Shoebills

Reese Sawyer -

How Papa fell in love with shoebills I do not know. It’s a damn curse on him and on us that he did. They...

Prune Yourself, Girlfriend!™

Liz Breazeale -

The Garden arrived on a heatsick summer evening, Mom charging to intercept the mailman at the edge of our scraggled, sun-brittled lawn. She was...

Travellers

Kate Cayley -

The car lurched in late-afternoon traffic. Trout’s palms were stuck to the seat. The driver frowned into the mirror, talking into his earpiece; she...

Caretakers

Andrew Eckholm -

It was in the fall of Alice’s eighth year in Park Slope that she threw out her couch. She already had two chairs; there...

A Crater on Jupiter

Courtney Causey -

So—I’m sitting up in my car garage halfway through my third Schiltz and fourth game of Solitaire when Rainey pull-up. I eye his old...

Busybody

Ashton Carlile -

There was once a busybody who lived on an island that was technically inside of a big peninsula. Her name was Maggie. Everything she...

Sanctuary

J. Vera Lee -

Years after our divorce, my dreams, during an on and off again tryst with a man named Otto, feature X: both of us cleaning...

There Are No Hills On the Cape

Duncan Birmingham -

Lilly dipped a rice cracker into the specialty market hummus her mother had laid out on the kitchen island and wondered how much her...