The South | JOYLAND

Ghost Story

Claire Burgess -

The tour group clusters in a semicircle around Rick, breathing on their fingers and eyeballing the poorly lit parking lot between a dentist’s office...

Regarding Your Work

Chelsea Hickok -

Los Angeles, April 14th, 1949 Dear Mrs. Eames, I’m going to call you Ray because after seeing your paintings in New York I feel like I...

The Resurrection Act

Shannon Perri -

Earl set the keys to the ash-colored minivan on the motel room’s nightstand. He moved the keys to the desk made of fiberboard, and...

Briscas

Lillian Weber -

She comes in at two a.m., closing the door slowly, wincing theatrically at the click of the latch, so used...

Romeo No. 3

Selena Anderson -

Robert don’t need no help pulling girls, now. But when the Dream Date came to Burrell for its Hometown Hunks series, I just had...

The 37

Mary Miller -

I had never ridden a bus before, not a city bus, not a bus where you stood at a bus stop and buses came...

Florida

Rachel Lyon -

The summer between Jack Booth Jr.’s sophomore and junior year of high school, his mother left him and his dad...

Juventud

Vanessa Blakeslee -

Excerpted from the novel, Juventud, available now from Curbside Splendor here. The evening began politely enough. Having spent nearly every afternoon with Manuel for more...

Now We Must Speak in the Past Tense

Lee Matalone -

Sometimes the phone rings and when she goes to answer no one says nothing. Sometimes she’ll wait for five minutes on the line, listening....

Notice of a Fourth Location

Kristen Arnett -

When they asked, I said the woman looked like she was sleeping. She looked like I did every night in my living room, dozing...