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Your Path to Perfection Is Through Me

Charles Logan -

Judgment You are a city of bronze temples. Isolate. Flex. Pose. Welcome the Jacksonville Civic Center to your golden domes of pectoralis major. Usher the...

A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party

Margaret Wappler -

"A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party" was first published in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 1. Wappler is currently working on a...

May We Be Worthy of the Favor Bestowed Upon Our Ancestors

Adam Sol -

All through my growing up, whenever the family got together, at some random point during the celebration only he could predict, my uncle Peter...

Rowing

Karen Dietrich -

Karen Dietrich's memoir, The Girl Factory, is available now from skirt/Globe Pequot. My father murdered five people before I was born. I don’t know my father...

Preserves

Matt Baker -

The thing that I refer to as myself is simply an accumulation of memories: an incomplete set of sensory experiences as recorded by my...

The Things They Said

Kelli Deeth -

Kelli Deeth's new collection of short fiction, The Other Side of Youth, is available now from Arsenal Pulp Press. This story was originally published...

Jenny Sugar

Scott McClanahan -

Scott McClanahan's latest books are Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, from Two Dollar Radio, and Hill William, from Tyrant Books. Jenny Sugar first appeared...

Microcosm

Jeremy Hanson-Finger -

You and Sarah both live in the same direction and what she’s just said doesn’t change that. Jason and Gill have left already to...

Another Level of Knowing

Mary Krienke -

I know the stare of someone sleeping with their eyes open. My therapist has struggled to remain focused in my last few sessions. She’s...

The Hut

Katie Chase -

My mother thought the best way to teach me to be a woman was to teach me to be alone. The morning of my thirteenth...