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Mr. Bananaman

Kyle Seibel -

“I’m looking for some friendly faces,” he says, popping the lid off his coffee and blowing on it. “Some students—former students, only the brightest...

The One With the Multiverse

Josh Riedel -

Mark wasn’t thrilled to return to Webster, the copy-and-paste town west of St. Louis where he’d grown up. The town was cluttered with the...

Today’s Problems

Sara Jaffe -

It started this morning before we got out the door, when my baby ran up the stairs and said he wouldn’t go to school....

Love Calls You by Your Name

Trey Sager -

I got to the producer’s house around nine. It was dark inside, much too hot for a cocktail party. I’d left my pills in...

Pledge, Prayers

Kayla Jean Murphy -

You can make your own glass cleaner. Most people know this, maybe, but I didn’t until a few months ago. There are a variety...

Love Hurts

Brittany Newell -

"Love Hurts" by Brittany Newell was selected by the editors at Joyland magazine as a finalist in the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. It was both...

It’s Good For You Because It Comes Out Of Your Own Body

Mariah Kreutter -

The first time I went to the clinic it was dark out. The first time I went to the clinic my sister thought I was...

Modern Science

Felix Lecocq -

The miracles are brought to the zoo in three black crates held aloft by three forklifts. The crates are settled on a patch of...

Trapunto

Callum Angus -

The first injection I ever did was in a sheep’s rump. A friend of my mother’s had a flock whose wool she sheared and...

The Trip

Jiaqi Kang -

"The Trip” by Jiaqi Kang was selected by the editors at Joyland magazine as a finalist in the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. “ it feels...