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JOYLAND
a literary journal in multiple timezones
Established 2008
JOYLAND
a literary journal in multiple timezones
ISSUE №
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a literary journal in multiple time zones
Jan. 2025
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a literary journal in multiple timezones
Established 2008
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Excerpt (Nonfiction)
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The Midwest
Ron Eight
John Jodzio
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My first husband was an inventor named Ron Buck and my second husband was his invention, Ron Eight. In the beginning, some of my...
Brownouts and Blackouts
Marta Evans
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On her twenty-fourth birthday Cleo collects herself and walks through the heat to the supermarket for several kinds of cheese and some kind of...
Penis Bucket and Fried Chicken
Yoo Jin Na
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I was rinsing off my hair when I heard someone knock. No one ever knocked on my door except for my ex. I imagined...
Ossetra
Sean Bernard
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We don’t have misfires. We don’t have a Michelin star, either, though everyone here in Chicago agrees that we deserve one, that restaurant ratings...
Young Ronnie in The Mirror
Cameron Stewart
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These walls have mice. They're pillaging the plaster and rooming in my boots. I can’t even sleep, so it’s all prescriptionless mercy pills for...
In Case I Don’t Call
Bruce Johnson
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When they were young, Michelle and her little brother shared a line in the basement. Their parents got them this line because Michelle insisted,...
Care
Tim Raymond
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Mom told me before she died to go to Jake’s house if I ever got into trouble. So, that’s where I’m going. I’m not...
T-Mobile
Elizabeth Ellen
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Two days earlier I’d texted Saul about his birthday. It was the end of November. He was turning eighteen. “aww, u remembered,” he said. I didn’t...
Let Me Take You to Olive Garden
Simon Jacobs
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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,...
That Won’t Be Necessary
Sara Schaff
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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...
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