The Northeast | JOYLAND

Cosabella Blues

Lauren Lauterhahn -

He left earlier that morning to meet his college roommate from Berkeley for breakfast, something he did the first Saturday every month. After breakfast...

Parabiosis

Tess Gunty -

“I can’t hear you,” says Irene. “Speak up.” “Do you want me to separate the fiction from the nonfiction?” repeats Nora, her assistant. “What?” Irene has remarkably...

Woman Flower

Jiaming Tang -

The woman who falls has many names. To customers, she is Mei—a sex worker with good prices and a sharp tongue. Online, where people...

Treasure

Annina Zheng-Hardy -

In summer especially, Julie thinks of her grandfather. She imagines him wheeling his bike out of the garage, the tires freshly resuscitated, ready to...

Women I’m Not Friends with Anymore

Rebecca van Laer -

When I met Mara, my therapist and I were talking a lot about whether female friendship was really the only refuge from heterosexuality. Men are...

Wants

Jen Lue -

The artist studio where Julia slept was located in the northeast corner of the city, an hour-and-a-half by subway from Tiananmen Square. All of...

Mother Root

Catherine Flora Con -

Three weeks into my trip to Taiwan, I went hiking with a Taiwanese man in his seventies who called himself David. The sun was...

It Won’t Be Long, It Won’t Belong

Carl Lavigne -

Ira Dubois was coming back to tell his father’s grave he was gay. Well, gay enough. Bisexual. He would say it didn’t matter if...

Ten Year Affair

Erin Somers -

Cora met Sam in a baby group in their small town. They sat on blue plastic mats in the back room of an overpriced...

A Survey of the Literature

Eva Dunsky -

(FALL Semester, 1986) Mark watches the kids filing in and out of the main hall and wonders if any of them...