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TEN ROMAN MILES • by Patience Mackarness

September 24, 2024Every Day Fiction 2 Comments

Fabia wasn’t sure why her entrails grew suddenly cold, just where the baby had begun to stir. She wasn’t superstitious, she’d laughed at the crazy predictions of Aurelia the retired Vestal Virgin like everyone else in the city. When Aurelia… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories family, parenting, Patience Mackarness, Pompeii, relationship problems

BERLIN 1916 • by Robert Duffy

June 26, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

No, I don’t want a cigarette. *** Everything was going according to plan. I met my contact in a dingy bar in the bowels of a low-class brothel.  A cesspool of thieves and perverts looking to ply their sick fantasies… Continue Reading →

Historical, Mystery / Suspense, Stories Berlin, Robert Duffy, World War I

HECTOR’S PYRE • by Morgan Want

June 19, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Andromache thought that when they burned Hector upon his pyre, they should just burn the rest of Troy with him. It was to happen soon anyway, without him to guard their gates, and she had told him as much, the… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories death of a spouse, funeral rites, grief, Morgan Want, Trojan War

THE CALM AFTER THE STORM • by Cassidy M. Wells

June 5, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

August 30th, 2005 It’s eerie: the stillness when I looked at everything I ever called home underwater. There was a surge of unease in the air. One that whispered, though the storm had passed, the worst had yet to come.… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories Cassidy M. Wells, family, flooding, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans

LEAVING THE MINE • by Joe Stout

May 21, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Bob Wanstead walked around the black engine, pausing for a moment to pat one of the big driver wheels, something he’d done before every trip since he started on the line forty-four years before. It left a film of coal… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories coal mines, Joe Stout, trains

BRANCARD • by Travis Flatt

May 3, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Across Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, I hunt it. My eyes burst vessels. My wife leans in the door, saying, “Babe, you’ve got work in the morning.” I wasn’t religious until sickness ignited my brain. Not madness, electricity. Seizures sparking from nowhere,… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal Joan of Arc, Travis Flatt

COURTING BRISEIS • by Morgan Want

April 25, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

When Prince Mynes of Lyrnessus came seeking Briseis’s hand, he brought many gifts for her father: jars of oil and sweet perfumes that burned Briseis’s nose and made her sneeze; swaths of shining cloth, and, of course, caskets of jewels… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Achilles, Ancient Greece, Morgan Want, Trojan War, war

FIRE ESCAPE • by Tom Roth

April 18, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There were nights I climbed out on the fire escape and listened to the voices above. I should’ve been doing my homework, because I’d be stuck in the sixth grade for another year, but Dad had just left for work… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories children, eavesdropping, Tom Roth

THE TIME CAPSULE • by Matthew Schultz

April 17, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You probably don’t remember. In fact, I doubt anyone remembers. Maybe that dog of yours that Dad found huddled in a Coca-Cola crate behind Steve’s filling station off Highway 83 just south of Thedford. I always did like that dog,… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories Matthew Schultz

THE TOSS OF THE CLEAVERESS • by J. Everett Feinberg

April 2, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“And now, for our next act, please welcome to the stage… Gertrude, the Cleaveress of the Rhineland!” The attending crowd clapped politely as a stout and simply-dressed woman took the steps onto the circular platform. Spotlights of reflected candleflame lit… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Historical, Stories J. Everett Feinberg

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