The Northeast | JOYLAND

Festival of Lights

Hannah Fischer -

What I didn’t know about Justilien Gaspard when I heard he was dying alone in Mexico was that he was gay. That he was...

The Martin Heidegger Statue

Jasmine Dreame Wagner -

The first thing the surgeon asks when he sees my scan is: when was the accident? I haven’t been in an accident. Earlier this...

Visions of Tom

Paul McAdory -

A few nights ago I had a sex dream about Tom Brady. I have never been a fan of the Patriots but there I...

The Most Fun We’ll Ever Have

Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng -

The summer before our senior year, Liam had proposed an open relationship. Had he been a Gender Studies major, I would’ve understood; the proposition...

Knowing

Oluwabambi Ige -

He grew up with a mother who liked to go to church. She was, as he said to his wife, Fola, when they were...

One Hundred

Kaushika Suresh -

The baby wails. The baby—beautiful, horrible, the love of their lives, scrunching its brown eyes, stretching its brown skin, body swaddled in cotton, body...

Ask at the Front Desk

Ann Russell -

The afternoon I flew into Chicago for Mother’s Day weekend, I found Mom hunched over her table, her face spackled with rouge. Before her,...

Justin, in Three Parts

Craig Willse -

1. It all goes back to this party at Kevin’s. Kevin was short with dark pinprick eyes that made him look like a cartoon. We...

Maps

Vanessa Chan -

When you die, I become obsessed with recreating you. I walk endlessly through our town, to notable places in your life. I go to...

Nothing Special

Sydney Rende -

I sent a message to a celebrity on the internet. It said, I think we’d make a good match. I added my phone number...