Excerpt (Fiction)

Joyland Magazine -

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

Luisa Colón -

Sometimes through my veil of hair, I caught sight of my former best friend Nadia in the halls, wearing our school’s varsity jacket with Class...

Robert Haller -

I wasn’t a bad girl. None of it had been my idea. Under the gazebo in the ...

Maura Roosevelt -

1979 The repeated, echoing bangs of the shutters during Hurricane Mattias, that violent, threatening...

Adam Dickinson -

Methylophilaceae Amber shared a wing. It was in her mouth. She had killed a bird and laid part of it on our...

Marcy Dermansky -

Rachel came home for her summer break with a dog, a standard poodle. I had just put down my dog. She was sixteen, my sweet...

Francine Cunningham -

Mary studied the man in front of her. She had never seen him before. “I’m Mary, I live here.” Mary stood holding her broom in...

Francine Cunningham -

The stairwell door slammed shut, the noise echoed but didn’t drown out Mary’s voice. “…but then I thought, what kind of secret would Vanessa and...

Francine Cunningham -

Sarah heard the suction of the patio door above her open. She didn’t know the freak that lived above her but she had heard...

Francine Cunningham -

Mary dreamed she died. She woke drenched in sweat. Her breath slipping in and out. And she knew something was different. She swung her feet over...