The Northeast | JOYLAND

Stay A While

Alice Kaltman -

I needed a goddamn purpose. Everyone around me was, pardon the lingo, finding themselves. Women my age were going on yoga retreats, throwing clay, volunteering...

Bottom

Cecilia Corrigan -

It was going to be a beautiful night, the air was balmy and sweet. The day had been uncomfortably humid. Mia had decided to...

Into the Valley

Ruth Galm -

Excerpted from Into the Valley, available August 4th from Soho Press. Galm launches Into the Valley at Books Inc. in San Francisco on August...

C’est la guerre

Danniel Schoonebeek -

Excerpted from Danniel Schoonebeek's second book, C'est la guerre, which will be published this fall by Poor Claudia. Brooklyn, NY • October 2 The question is...

This is Stability

Anabel Graff -

I pick up the phone to call Peter because I don’t want to talk to anyone else. Because James has just left, this time...

The Underside of Charm

Leopoldine Core -

Ava sat in bed with Gretchen, a woman she’d met the day before in an AA meeting. Gretchen had been sober for eight years...

513:47:22:12

Rob Hart -

“End of the world.” How long I had been staring at the pulsing blue light on the DVD player, I don’t know. End of the...

What It Is and What It Is Called

Amy Gall -

“Are you attracted to your sister?” The Professor looks at me, her hands loosely clasped on the desk in front of her. She is...

Slick Sided

Melissa Swantkowski -

Morgan saw her mother in the bedroom. “I’m a beast,” her mother said. “How am I ever supposed to take my clothes off again?...

Envious Moons

Richard Scott Larson -

Every night that summer I looked across the yard from my bedroom window into Callie’s, which glowed like something you could see from space....