Regions | JOYLAND

A Bedtime Story

Gideon Jacobs -

Editor's Note: The below story includes hyperlinks to Cameos the author ordered from the perspective of the protagonist. In order to fully enjoy the...

Hoarse

Caroline Zancan -

She was the one who always did most of the talking, and her voice was almost completely gone by the time they were seated. After...

Powerhouse

Emily Chew -

Once, at age nineteen, she’d tried changing her first name to Lexie, which didn’t take and, a decade later, still made her feel ineffective...

Marlon

Maddie Crum -

Marlon — who had given her that name? She didn’t like to talk about her parents. “I don’t pay you enough for that,” she...

Pregnant Doxology

Blair Hurley -

When I was pregnant, I was steadily nauseous for the first three months, and lay on the pilly corduroy couch of my apartment most...

Agape

Hunter Braithwaite -

Mark is on the living room floor and his wife Sheila, she’s walking all over him. It’s like he’s one of those sushi platters...

Elias

Rebekah Frumkin -

The old man’s house was at the end of the road that forked off the main road out of town. The old man was...

Gene

Elaine H. Kim -

“Our fiftieth anniversary is coming up,” Gene’s mother said to him as he jostled the mouse to bring her computer back to bright. One...

The Contest

Lindsay Hunter -

It was a Camry. Lipstick red. Lacquered shine. They were in an old building in the part of town where all the warehouses were, lights...

[INFESTATION!]

Rion Amilcar Scott -

Dearest Slumlord, The ceiling in the kitchen cracked and split, and from the black abyss in between the clouds of plaster dived a team of...