The West | JOYLAND

Reservations at the Polo Lounge

Liska Jacobs -

When you first pull up to the Beverly Hills Hotel it presents itself as a fortress, and it relies on this impression to keep...

Eat the Rich

Taylor Grieshober -

The hotel bar was crowded with patrons all dressed up in their post-Christmas, pre–New Years best. Ann stood at the door, wiping the snow...

The Burden of Joy

Lexi Kent-Monning -

I know Big Sur in my bones, in my skin, in the scar on my throat from when I was a baby. The jagged,...

She Elegies

Chris J. Rice -

A Work of Speculative Nonfiction 1. Sick with what I hope is a cold, I call to cancel an appointment and the woman who answers must...

Dark Social

Alex Webb Wilson -

I can’t say if it’s worth trying to track anything in our reality. I know every three winters we have these patterns where it...

Maintenance Requests

Ben Sandman -

Date: June 4 11:13amTo: Linda (Rockland Realty)Subject: Recycling binHi Linda, Good to bump into you coming back from The Comet (and sorry if I was...

With and Without Regard for Rhythm

Wendy C. Ortiz -

Changes I’ve made since learning I have atrial fibrillation, in no order whatsoever, possibly as arrhythmic as my heart: I have read, bought and...

our angel from the sky

jj peña -

they say she fell from the sky, a fallen angel we rescued. song, the fisherman, was the one who pulled her from the sea....

Ocean Park Quarantine

Derrick Martin-Campbell -

In the spring of the first of the seven quarantines, there lived a young man in a small house on Lantern Drive in a...

Practice

Chelsea Bowlby -

Rikesh, Gwen’s fiancé, wanted her to shut up. When you survive a mass shooting, at first, everyone wants to talk to you about it....