Consulate

The Outpatient

Philip Brunst -

“With my daughter,” Genevive said to Mercedes, “all I had to do was ask myself, ‘If I don’t, who will?’ You see, even as...

The Neighbor

Deepa Shankaran -

No one knows that I lost my job, except the neighbors. They see me in my pajamas on the fire escape, or on the...

The Origin of Jaanvi

Mahak Jain -

As I usually do on the weekends, I went shopping at Costco after lunchtime, packing the trolley with diapers for newborns, though I had...

The Modern Intimate

Carleigh Baker -

Congratulations to Joyland's Vancouver Editor, Carleigh Baker, whose book Bad Endings recently won the Vancouver Book award and is a finalist...

A Thin Green Mist

Robert Shaw -

My wife removed ladies underwear from a paper bag. “Found a bag. Opened the bag. Looked inside the bag.” She held up a pair...

Swimming Through Whales

Shannon Alberta -

I am not avoiding the mouse. I will deal with it—as soon as I’ve woken up, as soon as I’ve had my coffee. I use...

The Return to Monsterland

Sequoia Nagamatsu -

This story will be included in the forthcoming collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). It originally appeared...

Commitme| Co| Commitment

Ian Williams -

For example: Do you lik me? Check yes no * For example, afterwards, her brother used to write...

Black Forest

Valérie Mréjen (translation by Katie Assef) -

Excerpted from Forêt noire (Black Forest), published in France in 2012 by Éditions P.O.L. * The seven-and-a-half-year-old girl (and she is more than a little...

We Want Impossible Things

Jess Taylor -

I had a hard time falling asleep because I knew I couldn’t possibly be pregnant with his baby. And yet I was four days...