The Northeast | JOYLAND

The Purple Baby

Allison Kade -

A flower crown wasn’t the solution. But my younger sister Rachel kept trying to get my older sister Sarah to weave her camellia into a...

Parched

Nicole Haroutunian -

We went to a desert town once. Stepping out of the car, though, I felt underwater—breathless and panicked. I hadn’t known a place...

I Can’t Hear You

Kristen Falso-Capaldi -

“I want to leave you,” I say against the grinding of machinery and whoosh of air that accompanies the passing subway train. He doesn’t...

Mission

Caitlin Mullen -

There is an app that shows you where the Appolina is, how fast it is going, what the temperature is outside the pressurized doors, how...

Small Dinosaur

Terese Svoboda -

How does she get into my kitchen at seven a.m., squeezing frosting on my boy's toast? In college she hardly ever ate, except...

Just Visiting

Meredith Westgate -

By evening, a German man would swear he had seen the woman in orange leave, walking quickly towards the train station where he had...

Pull Me Under

Kelly Luce -

Excerpted from Kelly Luce’s novel Pull Me Under. Available now from FSG. Order here. The news of my father’s second and final death arrives by FedEx. I push...

Valencia

Mila Jaroniec -

Since moving to New York I’ve owned six copies of Valencia, but I keep losing them to girls. The first and most important came from...

Trinkets

Ian MacAllen -

I never suspected myself one of those people to marry because of an unexpected baby, but three days after Stefanie peed on a stick,...

The Program ™

Melissa Yancy -

Things had gone badly, and badly in ways she couldn’t have imagined, not for herself, not for anyone she knew. The story had been...