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WHEN I WAKE • by Evelyn Fletcher Symes

February 22, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Some women drove the coast road. Crammed like sardines into tired, old cars. They pooled their ration stamps for gas and ate what food they could find along the way. Laughing and swaying they listened to swing music as the… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories California, Evelyn Fletcher Symes, grief, marriage, San Francisco, World War II

SHADOWS GRIEVING • by Rob Darnell

February 19, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

As I walked along the street toward the apartment building that my family lived in for the last decade, a US Army truck rumbled by. When the truck was past me, I saw several white and a few black faces… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Rob Darnell, siblings, Vietnam War

FLIGHT • by Annabelle Smith

October 26, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Caesar Learns to Juggle Caesar is born in Kansas, 1932, where there is nothing and will never be anything. His future is limited to the dustbowl of the country, where he will die with a lungful of dirt and empty… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Annabelle Smith, circus, friendship, love, marriage, parenting

THE LAST TIME I SAW GARY WINSLOW • by Carla Lancken

September 11, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We were good for a while till the shaking and the noise. The noise was deafening. My coffee cup turned over and the file cabinet dipped to the floor, spilling its contents like one of our hungover brokers. I grabbed… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories 9/11, Carla Lancken

AT MY SHOULDER • by Ron Capshaw

August 4, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Writer’s block. I never thought I would have it again. But days passed, and I would type out a sentence and edit it down to two words. It’s the pulps, I told myself. A penny a word — by now,… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Historical, Science Fiction, Stories Ron Capshaw, typewriters, writers

AT THE GANDER • by David Clayton

June 22, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I walk in. They hand me a name badge. Immediately I ask myself why am I attending my fiftieth college reunion? The few who aren’t dead look like they should be. I’m gone. No boring stories, bad food and cheap… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal 1960s, bars, David Clayton, memories, time travel

SPECIAL K • by Morris Alexander

June 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Fast car to the coast, he said. Standing around in the schoolyard, we imagined a big black car, maybe with running boards, like you see in the movies. The boy didn’t say anything more. He just kept picking up chestnuts… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories colonialism, immigration, Kwame Nkrumah, Morris Alexander, refugees

ENTANGLEMENTS • by Marion J. May

February 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It was late August, and I was still too young to attend school. I remember walking with my mother on the hillside path near our home at Dark Byte, along the rugged Labrador coastline. We were on our way for… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories, Surreal death of a parent, early 1900s, Labrador, Marion J. May, small town

ROMANCE WITH SARDINES • by Robert D. Beech

January 5, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

She walks quickly down the aisle of the train, looking for an open compartment. Her heavy fur coat marks her as out of place in the second-class wagon. Once, she would have travelled in the first class section with the… Continue Reading →

Historical, Romance, Stories Bolsheviks, food, Robert D. Beech, royalty, Russia, trains

MEMORIES OF ARCHIE • by Martin Hadfield

December 14, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On the hundredth anniversary of the end of the war, the local newspaper read “Statue Unveiled of Local War Hero Archie Sutherland”. At the unveiling ceremony a draped cloth was lowered to reveal a tall, handsome soldier standing tall atop… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories fathers, Martin Hadfield, statues, war, World War I

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