Fiction

Baby

Carol M. Quinn -

Miss Harris favors a hands-off approach in homeroom, to conserve her strength for the rest of the day, but sometimes she cannot help but...

Too Much is Never Enough

Genevieve Hudson -

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

Jenessa Abrams -

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

Erica Peplin -

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

Becky Adnot-Haynes -

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

Leah Schnelbach -

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

Tom Thor Buchanan -

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

Katie Young Foster -

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

Corinne Manning -

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

Richard Rosenbaum -

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...