The Northeast | JOYLAND

Teri Dee Strung and Dale Vigor -

Excerpted from the forthcoming novel Executive Privilege: An Erotic Satire due this fall from Baby Robot Press. Carolyne was a ball of frenzy. She...

Mindy Hung -

The first burst balloon was not entirely William's fault. The days had been getting shorter and the wind carried a chill, but he did...

Aaron Peck -

Bernard went to the nearest liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. He had been invited for a dinner party at Jeremy Croft’s...

Jon Reiss -

Just out of the subway I spotted the idling hybrid Toyota that 2Byung said he'd be driving. I looked through the window and saw...

Emily St. John Mandel -

Excerpted from the novel The Lola Quartet, available now from Unbridled Books. 1. Anna had fallen into a routine, or as much of a routine as...

Tom Paine -

Last month, by Gmail, I got the invitation to your funeral in Japan on March 11th. It took me a few breaths to remember...

Katya Apekina -

“Your speech was phenomenal, Mr. President.” Lincoln hunches over as he walks to better hear his companion, Mr. Seward, a small man with a large...

Robert Schirmer -

Terrence Sheppard wasn’t sure why he decided to run in an isolated wooded section of Prospect Park that afternoon. Usually he jogged one of...

David Winner -

There are only a couple more nights left of cable as Ernest, who paid for it, is no longer in his life. Angelo...

Tobias Carroll -

The week Owen left New York was one of sweltering humidity reaching down to enrapture us, swaddle us, leave us...