Regions | JOYLAND

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Sean James Fitzpatrick -

A bit ago I was reaching down the storm drain like a freak, checking over my shoulder but not because I was worried a...

Maybe You Were in the Plot

Charles Blackstone -

December 3, 1995 Even though she’d only been at college in Connecticut for a few months, Julianne could already tell which phone calls were ones...

Maggie in the Mills

David Moloney -

Erin only left for Indo-Burma two days ago, but it feels longer, and Maggie is fixated on counting the time until her return. Twelve...

Saving Princesses

Kyle Francis Williams -

My neighbor’s dog barks when left alone, and it is always alone. She’s a nurse or something, my neighbor. The bundle of blankets on...

Just You Wait

Zachary C. Solomon -

Other than the plainly ornamental column that rose out of the center of the living room, the apartment was ideal for their growing family....

How to Chop an Onion

Matthew Medendorp -

“One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world” – Robert Farrar Capon It starts underground. Twofold, really, the growing...

Habitat

Frankie Barnet -

Our mother likes to fuck mayflies. She developed a taste for it early in life, along with the heartbreak that inevitably follows. This has...

Violet

Melissa Seley -

Breezes blowing through a bougainvillea vine I’d recently trained to the eaves, its afterglow crimsoning the painter and me standing in the open doorway...

The Stars Walk Backward

Michele Filgate -

Gigi stands on the peeling steps of her gray deck in Connecticut and stretches forward over her dull, worn wooden cane to prune a...

All the King’s Men

travis tate -

Ludwig bathes in Badenburg Lake, on the eve of his nineteenth birthday. Sophie tends to picking flowers and momentarily glances at Ludwig’s naked body....