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  • Aug 28, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Sarah Anderson |Michelle Lyn King

    When Chloe called me in the car that Wednesday on the way to Costco, my boyfriend Damian and I were arguing about whether or not we would be willing to swallow a goldfish for money. “You have no concept of how the real world works,” he said. “That’s pretty fucking pejorative,” I was saying, as my phone lit up with that stupid picture of Chloe’s stupid face, filtered to have giant eyes and little deer ears and white deer freckles on the forehead.

  • Jul 31, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Jessica Poon |Michelle Lyn King

    It’s not the most significant detail, but I thought Anders was married, or marriage-adjacently cohabitating with a ceramicist when I slid into his DMs. I was twenty-nine, and pathetically afraid that I would never be considered nubile again. Anders was a friend of a friend of a friend of an acquaintance, something benignly distant like that, and he was a hobbyist photographer— the most tolerable kind—who’d recently had an exhibition for his photographs of ears.

  • Jul 10, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Marne Litfin |Michelle Lyn King

    Oh, I’m ready. A little afraid, sure, but who isn’t? I don’t expect it to hurt. I’ve been near the end three times before, and it’s always the same. Always calm, the same calm. Anxiety is for the well. When death is truly close, it feels like a blanket. A good sleep. I’m sure, in your line of work, you hear that sort of thing all the time, but it’s true. Sometimes I think it’s the only time in my life I’ve ever been able to relax. The first time was a fall on a family ski trip when I was fourteen.

  • Apr 29, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Drew Nelles |Michelle Lyn King

    This summer, everyone is drinking Aperol spritzes, and Simon orders one now. I would love an Aperol spritz, he says to the waitress, emphasizing that word—love—in a manner he never does with Andrew, his ostensible boyfriend, who is sitting across from him on the patio of the Moroccan restaurant.

  • Apr 29, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Amy X. Wang |Michelle Lyn King

    ◆1. Maisie’s on the verge of something spectacular. This, we know—and not because the nanosecond upticks of her gait, pulse, blinks, aerobic functions, shuddering fast-twitch muscles are all textbook, or whatever. Not because North’s screens and heat sensors and remote-control body cameras are blaring their siren songs, moaning something is about to happen, what could it be? Well: We know what’ll happen.

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