Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Short Story

Let’s Make the Void a Better Place

• F had already turned a quarter of his apartment into the gallery he called We Left the Warm Stable and Entered the Latex Void. This title...

The Little Pink House

  The little pink house on Estacado, along with two mangy duplexes out on Coronado, belong to the late O. K. Gummer’s only surviving daughter,...

The Wenceslas Men

The first time I saw one of them was as a shadow on the gauze curtains of an apartment that wasn’t mine. My lease had...

The BBs

By the time she turned seventeen, Meg Shannon had come to believe that the world pretty much sucked, but with the help of friends...

The Return

Congratulations to former Joyland contributor Naben Ruthnum, who won the Writers' Trust of Canada $10,000 Journey Prize this week. Here is his most recent story...

Barri Gòtic

For the spring break of her thirty-eighth year, Rebecca Park went to Barcelona in search of a fuck. That was her joke, anyway. She told...

Skidbladnir

When the old church burned down, Father Jakobsson was forced to hold service in the abandoned movie theater.  Which would have been bad enough,...

Sketch Artist, Boxer, Party Planner, Baker

On a Greyhound chugging westwards, squeezed up against the window by the flabby arm of a sleeping farm boy, Doug Sachs struggled against the...

Clear Skies

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

  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...