Fiction

Clear Skies

Lynn Coady -

Lynn Coady's most recent books are The Antagonist and the collection Hellgoing, which won the 2013 $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize. "Clear Skies" was the...

Park

Glen Pourciau -

New neighbors have moved in next door, and we're hoping for an improvement. Our former neighbor lived alone after his wife left him and...

The River Crossing

Andreas Trolf -

The young man sat in the old house looking at a magazine. He stopped reading when he suddenly noticed the bird songs coming in...

Didi

Shruti Swamy -

When I got back from the grocery store, my wife was sitting in an armchair and looking out the window at the rain. She...

The Boy Through the Window

Sofia Mostaghimi -

Although they have trouble burying the bodies because the ground is frozen, I pictured it as a beautiful thing: pale and naked, lined up...

Lou Schultz

Mimi Lipson -

When Lou Schultz got to the Avis desk at the Orlando airport, the compact car he’d reserved was not available, nor was there a...

Broken Notes

Yejide Kilanko -

During an unguarded moment, she’d wondered what it would be like to live with a man. Dawn to dusk, day after day, the presumption...

Your Path to Perfection Is Through Me

Charles Logan -

Judgment You are a city of bronze temples. Isolate. Flex. Pose. Welcome the Jacksonville Civic Center to your golden domes of pectoralis major. Usher the...

A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party

Margaret Wappler -

"A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party" was first published in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 1. Wappler is currently working on a...

May We Be Worthy of the Favor Bestowed Upon Our Ancestors

Adam Sol -

All through my growing up, whenever the family got together, at some random point during the celebration only he could predict, my uncle Peter...