The West | JOYLAND PUBLISHING

Haley

Josh Emmons -

Forty miles southeast of Philadelphia, Michael owned a large Dutch Colonial house on twenty acres with a pool and private beach access, which he’d...

Mother Miri Full of Grace

Maggie Tokuda-Hall -

When Miri and Ben had sex, he filled her with a million babies, but then didn’t ask her to marry...

All That We Never Were

Alexis Landau -

My shins are encased in flesh-toned pantyhose. The wrong choice, clearly, as the bare legs of all the other women flash brazenly underneath cocktail dresses....

The Loneliest Thing

Sasha Watson -

“Taz, yo, no shit, Taz just goes off on him!” Hector was all bouncing around in the big cracked leather chair by the window in...

There Once Was a Man Who Longed For a Child

Micah Perks -

After his wife died in childbirth, the man raised his daughter up until the September she left for college. That October, the man sorted...

Ms. Kay

Sara Finnerty -

Amber lay with her back on the purple yoga mat, her legs pressed together at a perfect 90-degree angle. “Exhale,” the teacher said, “And...

The Hello Kitty Justice League: Selections

Marian Palaia -

1. Chinook (2012) Cam and I were at the river and I was telling him a story he’d already heard a dozen times: We were still...

Goldie

Yvonne Zima -

Kent asks, “Pearl, is it?” He sweeps my bangs aside, undressing my face because every bloated and balding forty-year-old at the Chateau Marmont thinks he...

Becoming an Outdoorswoman

Kristin Griffin -

Kathryn filled her backpack with the essentials: a few t-shirts and pairs of underwear, climbing shorts that didn’t get in the way, her shoes...

The Girl

Kait Heacock -

Kait Heacock's debut collection, Siblings and Other Disapointments, will be available October 11 from Ooligan Press. It launches at Powell's Books on October 19....