Regions | JOYLAND

The End Is The Beginning

Wendy C. Ortiz -

The small round kitchen table was the desert and their hands were still upon it. Marge looked at her daughter’s eyes, the blue eyes she’d...

The Blood-Sex Iconostasis

Jasper Nighthawk -

Night falls over town. The fog doesn’t recede. Sodium lights flicker to life. Some hold steady; others strobe on and off in lugubrious, neurotic cycles....

Let Me Take You to Olive Garden

Simon Jacobs -

I. The year is 2004. I just got my ears pierced! Reese is wearing eight million bracelets and boots that come up past her knees,...

Mission

Caitlin Mullen -

There is an app that shows you where the Appolina is, how fast it is going, what the temperature is outside the pressurized doors, how...

Small Dinosaur

Terese Svoboda -

How does she get into my kitchen at seven a.m., squeezing frosting on my boy's toast? In college she hardly ever ate, except...

That Won’t Be Necessary

Sara Schaff -

Sara Schaff's debut collection, Say Something Nice About Me, is available from Augury Books and can be ordered here Before the summer crew painted...

Just Visiting

Meredith Westgate -

By evening, a German man would swear he had seen the woman in orange leave, walking quickly towards the train station where he had...

Ice-Storm

Melissa Bull -

The power knocked out midway through my stupid all day-all night Thursday shift and it got really cold inside my little boutiquette. Something popped behind...

Food I Ate With Frank

Catherine Owen -

1. Fried kielbasa slathered with brie Frank’s mother never keeps such food in the fridge. You can tell by the way he hefts the sausage...

Jonestown, Japantown

Annie Dawid -

After reading the letter once, Truth called to her son, Cuffy, who was now six years old, in the next room. “Let’s take a...