The Northeast | JOYLAND

Creatures in the Woods

Anabel Graff -

The air is swimming with mosquitoes, hormones, pheromones, hope. You are listening to your section leader, Liddy, read the instructions for the big canoe trip....

Celestial Bodies

Annabel Graham -

The photographs could have been of anyone. They had been uploaded from a digital camera onto the shared desktop computer in the Soho apartment, left...

The Pelican

Robert Haller -

“Now notice, Maddie, the subtle ways they compete, even when there are no females around.” My sister hands me the binoculars and takes a...

Straight Up Now Tell Me

Sarah Francoise -

I was halfway through my third-grade exposé on the vulcanized civilization of Pompeii when the principal irrupted into the classroom with the new boy....

The Independence Shipping Company

Tobias Carroll -

From the collection Transitory, out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Buy it here. -1- Another long day's trawling. I am thankful for the ship. Thankful for...

Blossoms

Alice Kaltman -

Alice Kaltman’s debut collection of short stories, Staggerwing, is forthcoming this October from Tortoise Books. On the sweltering...

Ghosts You Loved More

Michelle Lyn King -

In late April of my junior year, a boy with intentions that at the time were still unknown to me (as opposed to unclear,...

My Father’s Death is a Law School Graduate

Kate Axelrod -

I see her at the airport before she sees me — she alternates between checking her phone and looking around — and I feel...

Until I See Palm Trees Again

Ben Fama -

“People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare.” –Norman Buckley, quoting Michael Connelly, in a tweet He’d kept in touch with Mars the week...

Our Girl

Alison B. Hart -

Annie liked Rya’s way with Maeve right off the bat. Maeve could be so aloof with strangers. But when Rya got down on her...