The Northeast | JOYLAND

Antonia Angress -

Louisa’s first assignment at Wrynn College of Art was paint home. She’d left home a week ago, and now, as she looked out the...

Aria Beth Sloss -

The first thing I do as my dead son is book the flight to Greenland. The grant money had already been deposited in his...

Jane Wong -

Not Jenny. Not Michelle. Not Katie. Not Cindy. These were the names of the girls in my grade-school class, oftentimes in triplicate so they...

Mamadou Yattassaye -

black souls melt away like fla-vor-ice popsicles in the summertime sun. “Is that shit coming from your home?” A neighbor from 7A knocked on my...

Alice Kaltman -

As soon as Prudence came through the door, home for Spring Break, Miriam knew; sex, lots of it, was being had. Pru reeked of...

Amy Shearn -

The Brooklyn Collection of the Central Library was one of the few remaining places in the world—or at least in New York City, which...

Nicholas Montemarano -

Daisy and James (2002) He’d never had sex like sex with Daisy. And so when she ended things after only three months, it was as...

K-Ming Chang -

All the women in my family are Orchids. Big Orchid, Baby Orchid, Medium Orchid, Fat Orchid, Bald Orchid, Belly Orchid, Honey Orchid, Hurt Orchid:...

Nicola Maye Goldberg -

Lydia wakes to the smell of burning. She is so tired that she considers staying in bed anyway, but soon the sound of the...

Lillian Fishman -

In the years before Haviva I could be forgiven for trifling with women and saying to myself—later on there will be less time to...