Regions | JOYLAND

The First Taste

Jo Barchi -

It’s the fall of 2013 and I just found out I’m a faggot. Henry isn’t supposed to be a part of...

Auteur Theory

Fran Hoepfner -

A director was coming to Harper’s college campus to shoot a movie that fall. The night before she learned this information, Harper asked her roommate Anne...

Finding Houdini

Paola Ferrante -

Whatever Jeremy would say, the snakes were always a problem. I know if Jeremy told our story he would say he never saw the...

VJ Day

Kirstin Allio -

In August the manhole covers began to seep. Summer had the same texture as the local Eyewitness...

Peaches

E.M. Tran -

Peaches did not like her Chinese neighbors. Mai Phuong and Minh had moved last year into the Greek Revival mansion that the Fitzgeralds used...

To Be Another Than Myself

Caroline Beimford -

We didn’t know anyone in Bilbao, so we managed our expectations. We wandered through the old town, a knave of streets and warrens so narrow...

The One With Naked Friendsgiving

Edgar Gomez -

The only rule listed on the Naked Friendsgiving event website, italicized and in all-caps beneath a brief schedule of events—come watch movies, play games, eat yummy...

Dreaming in Tongues

Daphne Palasi Andreades -

Isabel sat at the back of the Adult Beginner’s English class with other Filipinos who already knew how to speak English, that language of the colonizers...

We Drew This Picture of JonBenét

Megan Walsh -

Bartholomew Baxter is the only boy who's nice to me. He's half a foot shorter than everyone else, and chunkier—he’s shaped like Theodore from ...

Girl Talk

Ingrid Nelson -

Ellie tells me that psychologically it’s possible for any one person to fall in love with any other person, given the right circumstance. Ellie tells me...