Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

Too Much is Never Enough

When I was young I had a reoccurring dream that I was a boy. The dream was so sweet. It was like licking sugar off...

Bedroom Talk

I know a guy who’s going to kill another guy when he’s ready to die. I used to fuck him. He used to fuck me....

Can’t Dance

My mom took me to get a spray tan. She showed me how to step into the stall. She told me to close my eyes....

This Is Not from Outer Space

I’d had men want me before, but never someone like Luke. The meteor man, I called him jokingly in a text to Louise, my...

The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs

Staying at Chloë’s house meant heat, the sister’s voice like a buzzsaw, her stepdad’s friends’ comments, roaches flying in the bathroom, yellow American grilled cheese. I...

A Dozen Stomachs

1 A stomach is an organ in a moving body. It is pale pink in colour and shaped like a crooked knuckle. It is able...

Back Home in Ida County

Lara, anxious, unable to dream, rose from her bed at midnight. She stepped off the porch. The screen door clipped Marco’s breathing. The darkness around her was graded:...

The Wallaby

My farmer neighbor asked me if I wanted to meet his wallaby. I’d just moved to the land adjacent his property and was working all...

The Fence

Congratulations to Richard Rosenbaum whose first collection of short stories, Things Don't Break, is now available from Tightrope Books.  Joyland published a story from this collection...

Spying

With his notebook already open, Daniel scanned the yards in front of us for the most interesting thing to take note of. The air was...