The South | JOYLAND

Bad Daddy

Rickey Fayne -

It’s 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and Grandmama is waking me up. She’s telling me that my daddies are hungry. She’s telling me that...

The Sweet

Rose Himber Howse -

I was still sitting there seven cigarettes later when the rain stopped. Two deer came to drink from the mud puddles around the hosta...

The Mud Path

Lauren Garretson-Atkinson -

Wild Heron Plantation Chatham County, GA July, 1763 Coffey had finally made her decision— tonight was the night she’d become a woman. Most girls measured change against things...

Tongues

Jimmy Cajoleas -

The first time I went to youth group was after the new kid stabbed himself in study hall. Our teacher was Mr. Bream. He was...

A Whole New World

Amina Gautier -

No one is going to miss you. After four years of teaching in the English Department at De Chantal, a Catholic university on the...

Good Route, Bad Route

Daisuke Shen -

We’ve been developing this game for about 3 years now—Mistaken Person: Love is Destiny. The publisher I work for is called wataame. It’s a...

All This Want and I Can’t Get None

Tia Clark -

There’s cereal at my mom’s but the milk is expired, and I’m already late for school so I don’t have time to scramble eggs...

Adult Video Store

Sophia Shelton -

I had to be the one to go into the adult video store. Charlie didn’t have a fake ID, and even if he did,...

An American Echo

Rachel Hanson -

Teagan arrived in Hailey, Idaho, quickly finding work in a café where elk meatloaf and venison stew was a local standard. She had read...

What is Lost is Not Lost

Jared Lemus -

I finished explaining the plan to my brother, detailing all the specifics of my mental blueprints—how we would avoid the creaky floorboards, get the...