Fiction

Regular Old You

Karen Parkman -

Annie realizes while she and her boyfriend, Adam, are Christmas shopping that lately she doesn’t enjoy his company very much unless they are both...

The Tender Knife

Scott Dominic Carpenter -

Occasionally, Joyland's Midwest section highlights great small presses based in the Midwest. This story is part of the collection This Jealous Earth published by MG...

Loving the Dog

Stephanie Devine -

A few days ago, my husband read an article about a dog’s birthday party. Now he wants to have a party for our dog,...

The Art of French Cooking

Kyle Lucia Wu -

My little sister is healthy all her life until she turns twenty-two, when she is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and moves into my...

See You Later, Fry-O-Lator

Monica Drake -

This story is part of The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers, out this October from Black Lawrence Press. The morning of my sixteenth birthday, I, Mademoiselle...

Apology

Cynthia Flood -

“Edith,” those four women said, “you’ve been inconsiderate.” Thoughtless, they continued. Unsympathetic. Less than kind. Etc. An intervention, no less. Over coffee and cookies, prepared by...

Kirsty, 22

Naben Ruthnum -

We made a fake Facebook account at an internet café, one of the last ones downtown, full of Korean gamers and a weird smell...

Destroying Pull

Gavin Tomson -

“Temporal horizon.” I overheard an Australian man use that expression today at a Best Buy in Montreal - where I bought a blank CD...

Walpurgisnacht

Alexandra Tanner -

“I’m so tired,” Kate says. “I feel like shit,” Kate says. “We should go out tonight,” Kate says. Next thing I know I’ve gulped down, like, four...

Shape of a sitting man

Kevin Hardcastle -

When Arthur leapt out from the black the eight men around the fire quit talking. One stood like he was pulled up by cables....