The Northeast | JOYLAND

Polyphyletic Double: Kidnapping, Murder, and Resistance in Post Trump America

Sarah Wang -

My mother learned to shoot a gun at the age of twelve. In a requisite class at school, she was taught how to clean and...

Where We Are Right Now

Alexandra Kessler -

Ellis and Scott met at the bar of a southern barbecue restaurant on Seventy-Eighth street and second avenue. The place was called Brother Jimmy’s and it...

Rubicon

Matthew Sullivan -

You are going to kill me. That’s what the guy said to you as you held open the glass door of the office building, letting him...

Missing Years

Nicholas Mancusi -

We made grilled cheese sandwiches in a skillet on the gas stove and then set right down to the matter of...

Wasted State

Lena Valencia -

It’s the night before Thanksgiving and I’m at the Meals-2-Go section in the Western State University Center Café stuffing saran-wrapped turkey sandwiches into my backpack while...

I Thought I Saw a Beautiful Boy

Mariah Stovall -

I. I thought I saw a beautiful boy. Today, this afternoon. Before I could be sure, I compared myself to the girl he was with. We...

Jeannie’s Ghost

Hanna Halperin Goldstein -

When Roger and Ellen Ramsey found their six-month old baby facedown, lifeless in his crib one December morning—his arms and legs splayed like a starfish, his...

Coyote in the Blood

Seth Fischer -

When we pulled into Grandma’s driveway in our rental Kia, she was sunbathing in a black bikini, stock-still in one of those sticky white slatted plastic...

The Dog Sitter

Kirsten Kearse -

The truth is not the story she will tell him, she realizes as she stands in the street, her right arm stretched out behind her...

MEANWHILE

Sasha Fletcher -

Catherine comes home to her parents asking ‘How was school today?’ and Catherine she says ‘Today we discussed bears.’ ‘Bears?’ says her parents. ‘Bears’ says Catherine. ‘Why in...