The South | JOYLAND

Loving the Dog

Stephanie Devine -

A few days ago, my husband read an article about a dog’s birthday party. Now he wants to have a party for our dog,...

Walpurgisnacht

Alexandra Tanner -

“I’m so tired,” Kate says. “I feel like shit,” Kate says. “We should go out tonight,” Kate says. Next thing I know I’ve gulped down, like, four...

As If We’d Been There Before

Eleanor Kriseman -

Jazz and I started out that summer spending every day together. I first saw her earlier that year in the parking lot, unloading groceries...

Waiting

LaToya Watkins -

Vashti read the bear policy posted at the start of the trail twice before she decided to walk with us. She made one command....

New Delta Future

Kyle Coma-Thompson -

The return to Moon Lake had been a quiet one—a drive through downtown Helena, depressing, most of the storefronts abandoned, the sidewalks cut apart...

Recipe for Marble Cake

Hallie Elizabeth Newton -

I was in Texas one summer and found myself sneaking into a famous designer’s backyard with a bisexual engineer and a carpenter who used...

Outlaws

Jared Yates Sexton -

Faye and me were really up a creek. The rent was due and collection companies were ringing the phone every couple of minutes. My...

Alligator

Sarah Gerard -

Trappers came and dragged the alligator out of the ditch in my backyard, bound her front legs and threw her on the flatbed of...

Songbun Song

Jessica Richardson -

Hyo washes his hands in hot water. He presses his nails into his cloth to remove each excess drop to ready his fingers for...

Chicken Necks

Elise Burke -

It was Willy’s job to feed the big cats. Luray Zoo’s got a lazy Bengal tiger that was rejected by its mother, an ocelot...