The West | JOYLAND PUBLISHING

Kate Folk -

We’d been warned not to ride the ATVs straight up the hill, but we did, and one of us, I think it was Joel,...

Ruth Madievsky -

Debbie lost her virginity to my eighth grade English teacher. She was in tenth grade. He was in his mid-twenties, probably. We had this...

Jackson Burgess -

and there were kids inside the building after all, and when the car came barreling down the hill, they pressed their faces up against...

Ilana Masad -

John opened his eyes and saw that he wasn't alone in the room anymore. He caught the thought and ripped through it, scattering the...

Caille Millner -

Cecily is six months pregnant with someone else’s child when her husband tells her that he wants a baby of his own. It’s not...

Bryan Hurt -

The day before their honeymoon she got the flu. Then in the airplane she got an ear infection. In Paris the doctor gave her...

Kate Finlinson -

In July of 1997, we were having a Pioneer Moment. In celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of our ancestors’ arrival in the Salt Lake...

Keith Wagstaff -

We woke each other in the night. We lit stolen cigarettes in strange places. We lied. We sent each other notes signed with lines...

C.E. Hyun -

Once I was a god, and I had many brothers. Thor, god of thunder and protector of humankind; Vidar, god of silence and revenge;...

Daniel Lanza Rivers -

NuBot arrived on a Monday. A custom model designed by a specialist out in Appalachia, she had Bluetooth connectivity, a soft nest of auburn...