Regions | JOYLAND

A Thin Green Mist

Robert Shaw -

My wife removed ladies underwear from a paper bag. “Found a bag. Opened the bag. Looked inside the bag.” She held up a pair...

Notice of a Fourth Location

Kristen Arnett -

When they asked, I said the woman looked like she was sleeping. She looked like I did every night in my living room, dozing...

Stay A While

Alice Kaltman -

I needed a goddamn purpose. Everyone around me was, pardon the lingo, finding themselves. Women my age were going on yoga retreats, throwing clay, volunteering...

Swimming Through Whales

Shannon Alberta -

I am not avoiding the mouse. I will deal with it—as soon as I’ve woken up, as soon as I’ve had my coffee. I use...

The Surrogate

Caille Millner -

Cecily is six months pregnant with someone else’s child when her husband tells her that he wants a baby of his own. It’s not...

The Return to Monsterland

Sequoia Nagamatsu -

This story will be included in the forthcoming collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). It originally appeared...

Honeymoon

Bryan Hurt -

The day before their honeymoon she got the flu. Then in the airplane she got an ear infection. In Paris the doctor gave her...

Bottom

Cecilia Corrigan -

It was going to be a beautiful night, the air was balmy and sweet. The day had been uncomfortably humid. Mia had decided to...

In the South the Sand Winds are Our Greatest Enemy

Rita Bullwinkel -

Gleb and Oleg were banished brothers. They lived together in a prison infirmary surrounded by snow. Gleb was a surgeon and Oleg a sculptor....

Pioneer Trek

Kate Finlinson -

In July of 1997, we were having a Pioneer Moment. In celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of our ancestors’ arrival in the Salt Lake...