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Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid

Tan G. Digger -

“So I was reading this article in the Times about how, apparently, there’s like way more people who want to write books nowadays than...

The Poncho

David Balzer -

The Poncho is excerpted from Joyland/ECW’s latest short story collection, Contrivances by David Balzer. It also features work from artists Marcel Dzama, Margaux Williamson,...

The Untitled Lincoln Love Story Project

Katya Apekina -

“Your speech was phenomenal, Mr. President.” Lincoln hunches over as he walks to better hear his companion, Mr. Seward, a small man with a large...

Eulalie Laid

Elise Levine -

At forty feet on a weedy plain aglint with crushed beer cans, observed by pouting bass, he bumped her. She finned to catch her...

Hearing Test

Anna Prushinskaya -

You’ll never be quite what you used to be because you’re always getting older. Everyone is. This was her ex-husband’s mantra, but now, they...

Professional Development

Megan Stielstra -

With AWP 2012 starting this week in Chicago, we're posting this topical story by Megan Stielstra. Megan is reading at Joyland's event at Quimby's this Thursday, March...

The Morrigan

William Ilan Rubel -

Wren Connected to the bog-land by a wooden causeway, the crannog roundhouse was ringed by rough, stout poles. Wisps of smoke rose from its chimney,...

Safeway

Claire Matthews -

There is something to be said for sucking dick in a freezer. Between the rack of uncooked blueberry muffins and the ice cream, his...

Fershtupt on Dog Watch

Gary Barwin -

From Yiddish for Pirates, a novel 1. Moishe as a child. He told me stories. Some were true. At fourteen, he left the shtetl near Vilnius for the...

My Last Summer in Washington

Sarah Steinberg -

At first, I said moving to DC was like stepping inside a candy wrapper. That seemed right at the time but, then - not....