Fiction

Esperanza

Trevor Corkum -

What some call holiness—that hard to measure, out-of-the-blue goodness—can take root in strange places, at unexpected times. Think of that cool Christian miracle of...

Market

Sarah LaBrie -

I waited for a long time for a voice to tell me not to quit my job, and when no voice came, I quit....

Let’s Make the Void a Better Place

Malcolm Sutton -

• F had already turned a quarter of his apartment into the gallery he called We Left the Warm Stable and Entered the Latex Void. This title...

The Little Pink House

Kevin Grauke -

The little pink house on Estacado, along with two mangy duplexes out on Coronado, belong to the late O. K. Gummer’s only surviving daughter,...

The Wenceslas Men

Tobias Carroll -

The first time I saw one of them was as a shadow on the gauze curtains of an apartment that wasn’t mine. My lease had...

The BBs

Andrew Mozina -

By the time she turned seventeen, Meg Shannon had come to believe that the world pretty much sucked, but with the help of friends...

The Return

Naben Ruthnum -

Congratulations to former Joyland contributor Naben Ruthnum, who won the Writers' Trust of Canada $10,000 Journey Prize this week. Here is his most recent story...

Barri Gòtic

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk -

For the spring break of her thirty-eighth year, Rebecca Park went to Barcelona in search of a fuck. That was her joke, anyway. She told...

Skidbladnir

Shannon Rabong -

When the old church burned down, Father Jakobsson was forced to hold service in the abandoned movie theater. Which would have been bad enough,...

Sketch Artist, Boxer, Party Planner, Baker

Sam Shelstad -

On a Greyhound chugging westwards, squeezed up against the window by the flabby arm of a sleeping farm boy, Doug Sachs struggled against the...