The South | JOYLAND

A Gift

Pallavi Wakharkar -

My friend and I went to Coney Island one afternoon in January, a few weeks before we stopped being friends. He met me at...

Sam Tippy

Danielle Monique -

While her client sucked a thumb, Willa wove a criss-cross pattern of cornrows onto her young cousin’s head. She was improving. The braids looked...

Sissy

Rebekah Morgan -

Sissy sits on the wooden porch swing overlooking our whole and entire everything. Sits eating paw paws with her eyes shut tight and knuckles...

Mote

Shannon Sanders -

I They would only be in the house on Ashburn Street for six or nine months, a year at absolute most, and so although Merritt...

The Wolf

Carter Sickels -

He didn’t just wake up one day and turn into one. This had been developing for years, but nobody, especially his parents, wanted to...

And It Goes Running

Caroline Diorio -

Aside from becoming a werewolf, June was actually pretty non-eventful. Everything was simpler when I shifted. I didn’t think about Mama crying over the mountains...

[INFESTATION!]

Rion Amilcar Scott -

Dearest Slumlord, The ceiling in the kitchen cracked and split, and from the black abyss in between the clouds of plaster dived a team of...

Tender Heart: an excerpt

Joyland Magazine -

Florida 1996 My dad wanted to call me Paloma, but my mom couldn’t get the Texas twang out...

Norma

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips -

Krystal has the most beautiful dive I’ve ever seen. I pull out the radio from the storage...

Come Home

Joseph Grantham -

Margaret called and said I needed to come home because Dad was sick and I was her brother and she...