The Northeast | JOYLAND

The Value of Certain Things

Sativa January -

No peach. Also, no roses. Peach roses reminded Ann of dead people, of her dead grandma. Ann's mother, Mona, was...

Bartleby 2000

Jeffrey Freiert -

I caught a glimpse of him as he was leaving the office, though I’d been trying to avoid him. The building security man, in...

The Other Internet

Pasha Malla -

On the Other Internet there’s no “www.” There’s no such thing as URL’s or menu bars or web searches or any of that. You...

Pangaea

Jim Hanas -

Jeanie stared into the drawer beside her bathroom sink at all the foil disks ringed by plastic teardrops, each teardrop containing a tiny pill....

The Cat Sitter

Olena Jennings -

Claire’s hair made her sad. It fell out in black clumps every morning. After a series of blood tests, she was found to be...

Come As You Are

Bruce LaBruce -

From a feature film in development with Existential Crisis Films written with Brock Konig Brock. www.brucelabruce.com EXT. MEXICO - DAY The naked body of a handsome...

How We Rise

Amanda Stern -

Say that I could fly using just my body. Say that based on the rate at which I lift my arms, I could take...

France the Ghost

Joe Meno -

Frances the ghost is going to school: She is dressed in a white sheet with two holes for her eyes and that makes the...

Trilobite and Isle of Wight

Ed Park -

Arrivals People were laughing, afterwards. They laughed during, too, before anyone knew what was going on or what might happen. The thing to do upon...

Walking Bird

Lydia Millet -

One of the birds was lame, struggling gamely along the perimeter of the fence. The bird was large, a soft color of blue, and...