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JOYLAND
a literary journal in multiple timezones
Est. 2008
JOYLAND
a literary journal in multiple timezones
Est. 2008
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a literary journal in multiple timezones
Est. 2008
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Short Story
The Emily Problem
Mandy Berman
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Emily stood on the sideline of the seventh-grade soccer game watching a daughter who didn’t belong to her. Though she had to be working...
Blue Smoke & Running Elk
Autumn Fourkiller
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In this dream, she is at a pow wow and no one will look at her. Everything smells like flesh, fry bread, and beer....
Owl and Mouse
Anna Marschalk-Burns
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We had come to the house for the promise of sex. Our arrivals spaced out by a carefully timed thirty minutes so the neighbors...
The Night Prairie
Sean Sam
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Silhouetted against the Norwegian coast, a figure stands outside the Mørk Verden bar, a humanoid shifting its palm sidelong against the glass as if...
Sex is a Leisure Activity
Max Delsohn
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Before this, Gene was just a stand-up I knew, a good one, he had headlined a show in a bookstore that I’d featured for...
The Petting Zoo
Jade Song
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The West Coast girl was elevated. Royalty above the crowd, throwing back a glass of clear liquid. She danced on a table placed at...
I’m a Fan
Sheena Patel
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Excerpted from I'm A Fan, forthcoming from Graywolf I live in the world of mass consumerism, picking out kitchenware and furniture from Ikea, pining for...
Like a Cloud, Lighter than Air
Kate Doyle
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After Christmas, as she tries to swim up from her sadness, things which had always seemed laughable to Helen become comforting: Fate, for example....
Peek-a-Boo
Naomi Wood
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One evening in July, when I couldn’t sleep – the baby was pressing down on my bladder – I received a call from Carin...
Time’s Medusa
Brian Russell Roberts
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For ten years, mama and me lived alone in Utah’s Sevier Desert in a stone cabin at the base of the Drum Mountains. At...
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