Regions | JOYLAND

A Gift

Pallavi Wakharkar -

My friend and I went to Coney Island one afternoon in January, a few weeks before we stopped being friends. He met me at...

Daisy Chain

Nicholas Montemarano -

Daisy and James (2002) He’d never had sex like sex with Daisy. And so when she ended things after only three months, it was as...

Slumber Party

Donna Miscolta -

Angie Rubio shrank at the snickering of classmates, cringed at the embarrassed looks on her behalf. She tucked the newspaper clipping inside her notebook...

Sam Tippy

Danielle Monique -

While her client sucked a thumb, Willa wove a criss-cross pattern of cornrows onto her young cousin’s head. She was improving. The braids looked...

Bitterroot

Michael R. Schrimper -

The wilderness, in western Montana. Miles and miles of pines. Night-time. A stony beach. A river. On the beach, a fire, with bright orange...

The Triceratops

John Jodzio -

The same week my father gave my mother a heart attack, Jerry Dentro and I made out behind a triceratops at the Beltsville Area...

Happy Jack

Shelby Kinney-Lang -

When it was too much to be alone, and when dreams of my father stormed my mind; when I felt the hot guilt of...

Sissy

Rebekah Morgan -

Sissy sits on the wooden porch swing overlooking our whole and entire everything. Sits eating paw paws with her eyes shut tight and knuckles...

Family: Orchid

K-Ming Chang -

All the women in my family are Orchids. Big Orchid, Baby Orchid, Medium Orchid, Fat Orchid, Bald Orchid, Belly Orchid, Honey Orchid, Hurt Orchid:...

In Friendship and Illness

Taryn Bowe -

We were in the back of a van hurtling through the dark, strange streets of India. This was in 2000, late at...