The Northeast | JOYLAND

Saving Princesses

Kyle Francis Williams -

My neighbor’s dog barks when left alone, and it is always alone. She’s a nurse or something, my neighbor. The bundle of blankets on...

Just You Wait

Zachary C. Solomon -

Other than the plainly ornamental column that rose out of the center of the living room, the apartment was ideal for their growing family....

Habitat

Frankie Barnet -

Our mother likes to fuck mayflies. She developed a taste for it early in life, along with the heartbreak that inevitably follows. This has...

The Stars Walk Backward

Michele Filgate -

Gigi stands on the peeling steps of her gray deck in Connecticut and stretches forward over her dull, worn wooden cane to prune a...

Glazer Ball, Gym Class, a Locker Room, and a Bathroom

Davon Loeb -

At Indian Springs Memorial, Mr. Glazer had been a gym teacher for over twenty years. He might have been in his fifties but maybe...

Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella

Charlie Markbreiter -

Excerpted from Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella, out from Kenning Editions on 11/1, and available for pre-order here. S1E16: “All About My Brother” Nate’s POV The first time...

Rescue Strategy

Elizabeth Fergason -

Their marriage counselor was a collector. The obligatory African masks yes, but in addition, life-sized wooden statues of ebony warriors, enormous clay urns, exotic...

Youth Group

Christian Winn -

On some hot-ass Saturday afternoons we steal a bottle of Jenny’s mom’s rum, spike Mountain Dew Big Gulps, march to the 8th Street parking...

the rapids

Tariq Shah -

When we tried to pay for parking at the gate, the machine wouldn’t let us go. It refused to read mom’s credit card, so...

Otke Notive

Will Niedmann -

My body carries my mind. A wooden spoon, an egg. I live with four men in Otke Notive. Our apartment is a thin hallway...