Short Story

Chicken Necks

Elise Burke -

It was Willy’s job to feed the big cats. Luray Zoo’s got a lazy Bengal tiger that was rejected by its mother, an ocelot...

Amerikana Dreaming

Nikita Nelin -

One day we were gypsies, and the next we were kings. We were vagrants and lust-givers, catatonic, exuberant, strung out, unhurried, and even optimistic....

To Choose a Horse

Lauren Wallach -

Pablo always took the stairs but we met in the elevator. I had seen him before. Down the hallway, or in the earlier part...

Esperanza

Trevor Corkum -

What some call holiness—that hard to measure, out-of-the-blue goodness—can take root in strange places, at unexpected times. Think of that cool Christian miracle of...

Market

Sarah LaBrie -

I waited for a long time for a voice to tell me not to quit my job, and when no voice came, I quit....

Let’s Make the Void a Better Place

Malcolm Sutton -

• 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

Kevin Grauke -

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

Tobias Carroll -

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

Andrew Mozina -

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

Naben Ruthnum -

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...