The South | JOYLAND

The Little Pink House

Kevin Grauke -

The little pink house on Estacado, along with two mangy duplexes out on Coronado, belong to the late O. K. Gummer’s only surviving daughter,...

Park

Glen Pourciau -

New neighbors have moved in next door, and we're hoping for an improvement. Our former neighbor lived alone after his wife left him and...

Your Path to Perfection Is Through Me

Charles Logan -

Judgment You are a city of bronze temples. Isolate. Flex. Pose. Welcome the Jacksonville Civic Center to your golden domes of pectoralis major. Usher the...

Rowing

Karen Dietrich -

Karen Dietrich's memoir, The Girl Factory, is available now from skirt/Globe Pequot. My father murdered five people before I was born. I don’t know my father...

Jenny Sugar

Scott McClanahan -

Scott McClanahan's latest books are Crapalachia: A Biography of Place, from Two Dollar Radio, and Hill William, from Tyrant Books. Jenny Sugar first appeared...

The Rings

Eric Barnes -

Eric Barnes' new novel Something Pretty Something Beautiful is now available from Outpost19 Books. Here's a repost of Eric's Joyland story from earlier this...

Sinking

Christine Utz -

The summer storm crouched behind them while they stared at the gator in the mud. It was hard to say how big he was;...

How We Arrive

Steinur Bell -

One Monday I stood in my kitchen thawing orange juice concentrate, wondering whether to fix a sandwich. It was noon, quiet, and then I...

The Eyes of Spies

Lydia Ship -

The double agent slid down the side of a roof and launched, arms waving, across an alley to the next building, followed closely by...

Day Trip

Erin Brooks Worley -

My sister would sneak out late, after midnight. I’d hear her door open, then watch through my bedroom window to see her run down the...