Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING

Deleuze and Guattari

Jackson Frons -

I sprawled on a pale Florida beach while Connor read and the sun undulated hideously above the ocean. This was two languid, expectant days...

Long Bushy Tail

Mateo Askaripour -

I Woody sat across from his boss’s boss, Clarence, silent. Clarence, general manager of Audi of Huntington, stared back at him, silent. “You know I don’t...

Validity

Grace Byron -

Before the plane landed Iris chugged her last bit of Riesling and scrolled through her notifications. Dozens of pastel affirmations about trans women’s resilience...

Chitown Pachanguero

Jenzo DuQue -

Que todo que todo que todo que todo que Que todo el mundo te cante —Grupo Niche Tierra bella birthed incognito, in corners and on stoops and...

You Don’t Read This in the News

Mengyin Lin -

The old bus cruises out of Shanghai with a low hum. If it attempts to accelerate, its belly will groan, and the speeding wheels...

The Emily Problem

Mandy Berman -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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...