The Northeast | JOYLAND

Man Is Born to Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward

Terese Svoboda -

Three motorcyclists ripped through the gravel that Granny had spread not the week before, spraying stones in a half moon along the house side. One of...

Collection Day

Kurt Gottschalk -

Xian took a paint marker and an old mini-cassette recorder from his pocket. “Second and C,” he said into the tape recorder. His work...

August: an excerpt from Follow Me Down

Kio Stark -

It’s dusk on a Saturday, I’m out walking. There’s a man, unsteady on his feet, with a long, curled-handle umbrella. He’s holding it up...

Traces of Hugh

Greg Chandler -

Veronica stormed off set and just kept going. She blotted her sweaty, heavily made up face with the linen scrap she kept in the...

That’s How Wrong My Love Is

Lynne Tillman -

A while back, I watched a pair of mourning doves in their nest every day, watched as one then the other sat on an...

The Pump Twin

K. R. Sands -

Voices above the surface. Eight hours to remove the parasite’s internal organs . . . amputate . . . Who’s speaking? Talking about? Nervous system disorganized ....

Come When You Call Me

Courtney Elizabeth Mauk -

At eight o’clock in the morning, Alyssa shows up at Danny’s apartment door with a stack of bright yellow flyers. He has not...

The Man With the Divided Back

Jennifer McCartney -

excerpted from the forthcoming novel The Man With the Divided Back There are only three cities in North America which can claim to be the...

Wonder Bred

John Cotrona -

“It’s a holy day.” “No it isn’t. It’s a regular day.” “Why are they marching us off to church then?” “So they can film us. They’re perverse.” One...

Summer of Hate

Chris Kraus -

excerpted from the forthcoming novel Summer of Hate PART ONE: 2005 1/CATT: HER KILLER There are some people who like feeling like they’ve arrived at the...