Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING

August: an excerpt from Follow Me Down

Kio Stark -

It’s dusk on a Saturday, I’m out walking. There’s a man, unsteady on his feet, with a long, curled-handle umbrella. He’s holding it up...

Interview Questions For Randy Savage

Nathaniel G. Moore -

Hello Randy, Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. Sorry I missed you. My name is Ricky Galore and I have a lot...

A Happy Place

Arjun Basu -

The sun rises. As it must. And the sky is cloudless and the kind of blue you want to see in the eyes of...

Sky Blue

Lisa Pike Fiorindi -

It wasn’t until just after her fortieth year that she wanted to steal a baby. Marguerite had heard of this before. This kind of...

Bessarabian Stamps

Oleg Woolf translated by Boris Dralyuk -

IV. Valia and Cantonist Cantonist left the melancholy district center, which lay besprinkled with solar dandruff, to put in his compulsory military service. One...

The Chamber of the Enigma

Jac Jemc -

“You tell me,” Buzzard whispers in my ear. Buzzard and I made a baby, but that baby ain’t anything like we’d ever expected....

Your Disappearing Theme

Kathleen Brown -

Leon is leaving Toronto tomorrow. Toronto is a city, a notion of a city, a city en route, a map, adrift, an imaginary allotrope...

Emote Control

Anne Swan -

Let’s say you get hit with something. And we say get well soon and tell you that you’ll be running and working and flirting...

Paradox

Danila Botha -

I’m at the corner of Bloor and Ossington and, all of a sudden, it's really hot. The sun is hitting me directly in the...

Damage

Jeremy Jasper -

The light glistened on the pane of broken glass when I woke up that morning. I hurried out of bed to jerk the...