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Sound Check

Adrian De Leon -

If you find eavesdropping a delicious pastime, become an audio engineer. The best gigs make you feel like an intrepid anthropologist. With a serious grimace,...

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...

The Villagers

Kieran Mundy -

During the first game, I was a villager. My boyfriend’s little brother was a werewolf. When he found me hiding in...

Ghamlet

Evgeniya Dame -

The reflecting pool trapped, in order of distance, apple trees, a single silvery-blue spruce, three spikes of the obelisk commemorating students and faculty fallen in the...

Of Rats and Men

Rachel Rose -

“Cigarette?” demanded the punk, getting right in my face as I walked past him with my mango smoothie. He was an angry white man...

Volume IX: 2019

Joyland Magazine -

The following is an archive of work published in the year 2019: Happy Adventure by Sharon Bala Long Exposure by Hala Alyan The First Taste by jo brachia Doublings...

The Only One Who Could Ever Teach Me

Jason Villemez -

Jonah met Frank at the only restaurant in town, a family diner that served four-egg omelets and almost all parts of the cow. Eyes,...

The Origin of the Lullaby

Canisia Lubrin -

we were troubled some of us, before you read this, will be missing in the old ways and in some ways new we bring news of...

Knife Skills for Comfort Food

Kristen M. Ploetz -

Brunoise she lines up the short carrot sticks guillotines the roots to form tiny...

Turkey Knees

Apryl Lee -

Everything was fake, right down to my pantyhose, which weren’t even pantyhose. They were trouser socks and...