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Excerpt: Temple Grove

Scott Elliott -

Excerpted from Temple Grove, a novel by Scott Elliott, published by University of Washington Press. 1 Trace strapped her two-month-old son Paul into the rear-facing infant...

Chapman’s Green Hairstreak

James Greer -

We've reposted this story from our archives in advance of this month's edition of the Truth & Fiction podcast with guest James Greer. This...

Flight

Katya Apekina -

I’d stepped into the courtyard of Café Amelie to take the call from Hannah but I could only make out every third word she...

Life Camp

Jenny Halper -

Life Camp is also available in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 3. We are told the sea monkeys need a special place to live. They...

A Doom of Her Own

Shannon Robinson -

Please understand. This story will tell you nothing in a straightforward fashion. Though the pages are numbered, you must not confuse sequence with consequence. The...

The Savior of Clouds

Shane Jones -

Megan ‘The Love of God’ Jeffries moved her finger. Click. The subject of the email read Please proofread the attached cover letter (ALIGNMENT ISSUE: AN ISSUE...

Tangled

Laurie Stone -

Richard and I were in Maine visiting our friend Josey, who had restored a building beside a swing bridge. The building had at various...

Spells

Matthew Daddona -

I am starting the Saturday ritual upstairs of moving the old boxes from the new bedroom back into the old bedroom when the doorbell...

The Blond Inside Me

Emily Schultz -

Seven years ago I settled into the hydraulic chair at Shampoo, my regular salon in Kensington Market, turned to my hairstylist, Laura, and said,...

Empty Nest

Sarah Marian Seltzer -

Excerpted from the in-progress linked collection, Joy, Somewhere in the City Laine was in the passenger seat, her husband Gerald at the wheel, when he...