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I Want Too Much

Mona Awad -

Probably one of these days I’m going to kill Trixie. I have my reasons. I can hear her squawking to another customer just beyond...

Chapman’s Green Hairstreak

James Greer -

We've reposted this story from our archives in advance of this month's edition of the Truth & Fiction podcast with guest James Greer. This...

Break All the Way Down

Roxane Gay -

The mother of my boyfriend’s youngest child called in the middle of the night. He was asleep, the heat from his body wrapping around...

Are You Okay?

Tamara Faith Berger -

An excerpt from “The Way of the Whore,” revised and newly collected beside Believer Book Award winner Tamara Faith Berger's first novel,“Lie With Me,”...

Flight

Katya Apekina -

I’d stepped into the courtyard of Café Amelie to take the call from Hannah but I could only make out every third word she...

The Real Portlandia

Richard Melo -

Richard Melo's new novel, Happy Talk, is out this June from Red Lemonade. I was half out of my mind if not all the way....

Divestment

Helene Wecker -

Gerda Kohl, eighty years old, sat in the den of her house, surrounded by cardboard boxes. Her two daughters were fighting in the study...

The Clinical Trials of Eduardo Cabalas

Molly Lynch -

I got a job as a purple dinosaur that kids could get their picture taken with, on the corner of St. Catherine’s and Peel...

A Doom of Her Own

Shannon Robinson -

Please understand. This story will tell you nothing in a straightforward fashion. Though the pages are numbered, you must not confuse sequence with consequence. The...

Life Camp

Jenny Halper -

Life Camp is also available in Joyland Retro Vol. 1 No. 3. We are told the sea monkeys need a special place to live. They...