Short Story

The River Crossing

Andreas Trolf -

The young man sat in the old house looking at a magazine. He stopped reading when he suddenly noticed the bird songs coming in...

Didi

Shruti Swamy -

When I got back from the grocery store, my wife was sitting in an armchair and looking out the window at the rain. She...

The Boy Through the Window

Sofia Mostaghimi -

Although they have trouble burying the bodies because the ground is frozen, I pictured it as a beautiful thing: pale and naked, lined up...

Lou Schultz

Mimi Lipson -

When Lou Schultz got to the Avis desk at the Orlando airport, the compact car he’d reserved was not available, nor was there a...

Your Path to Perfection Is Through Me

Charles Logan -

Judgment You are a city of bronze temples. Isolate. Flex. Pose. Welcome the Jacksonville Civic Center to your golden domes of pectoralis major. Usher the...

Broken Notes

Yejide Kilanko -

During an unguarded moment, she’d wondered what it would be like to live with a man. Dawn to dusk, day after day, the presumption...

A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party

Margaret Wappler -

"A Craigslist Ad for a Mind-blowing Self-Actualization Party" was first published in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 1. Wappler is currently working on a...

May We Be Worthy of the Favor Bestowed Upon Our Ancestors

Adam Sol -

All through my growing up, whenever the family got together, at some random point during the celebration only he could predict, my uncle Peter...

Rowing

Karen Dietrich -

Karen Dietrich's memoir, The Girl Factory, is available now from skirt/Globe Pequot. My father murdered five people before I was born. I don’t know my father...

Preserves

Matt Baker -

The thing that I refer to as myself is simply an accumulation of memories: an incomplete set of sensory experiences as recorded by my...