Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING | Page 2 Devon met Thom at work Thom was very tall He was American, too They were two Americans in London, working as copywriters “My wife used He’s fatter It’s the first thing I notice Before the tubes protruding from every hole in his face; before his legs, spread, suspended and
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Fiction | JOYLAND PUBLISHING | Page 22 The typing in the back room thundered pompously I met Mona in this exchange office in St Vitus eighteen months ago I had just
Short Story | JOYLAND | Page 104 The time after a party when she and Roger lay together on the rug in his living room, under the
Excerpt (Fiction) | JOYLAND PUBLISHING | Page 2 Excerpted from Cascade (Great Place Books, April 2024) There is a starfish that sees with the surface of its body The brittle star doesn’t have
Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING My father and his twin brother used to wrestle each other behind a gas station that was owned continuously by our family since the
Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING | Page 14 The bar in the heart of their hometown stinks of their teen years Mezcal and machista cologne smearing the walls, but this is where
Fiction | JOYLAND | Page 125 The bus route began – for me, that is – in my neighbourhood, and then wound down past the mosque, through the leafy parts
Short Story | JOYLAND PUBLISHING | Page 20 The typing in the back room thundered pompously I met Mona in this exchange office in St Vitus eighteen months ago I had just