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THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHER • by G.R. LeBlanc

June 7, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The rumble of a motor cut through the forest, disrupting the stillness of a cool June morning. Olen grumbled. That meant humans, and humans usually meant trouble. Over the last sixty years, their fascination with his kind’s existence had pushed… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Inspirational, Stories dogs, friendship, G.R. LeBlanc, Sasquatch

PAPERWORK • by Pamela Love

May 21, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

As the rain fell outside, Peng’s hands danced with a piece of paper, folding, smoothing, and turning. Fascinated, Ms. Lewis watched as the fourth grader turned a square into a diamond, then a kite, and finally a crane. “I’ve always… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories Pamela Love, school, teachers

ABRACADABRA AND OTHER WISHFUL THINKING • by Kimberly Crow

May 19, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The song on the radio was from high school. She and her friend used to sing it as loud as possible when they drove to soccer practice. She would’ve turned it up, but she was in the backseat of her… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories Kimberly Crow, motherhood, parenting, wishes

DUST • by Jordi Torres Barroso

March 23, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In the morning, Mrs. Anderson said: “We’re all just dustbins. You and I are no different from cobwebs or used paper plates. Everything inside us gets swept away by the wind eventually.” By afternoon, Principal Lopez was standing in the… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories family, Jordi Torres Barroso

OUT WITH THE OLD • by Tom Kepler

March 3, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He saw her reflection in the chipped mirror on the wall. She was standing, gazing out the window, her back stiff with anger. They had driven for an hour, through deeper and deeper stone-cold silence and unforgiving mutual accusations, the… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Romance, Stories aging, Mickey Mouse, relationship problems, thrift store, Tom Kepler

GETTING GAS • by Jesse Houser

February 27, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Brian drove up to pump #6 in his Mazda, parked, and hit the stop button. He let out a tired sigh, got out, and walked around to the pump. Inserted his card. Put the nozzle in and squeezed the lever.… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories Jesse Houser, kindness, mental health

EIGHTEEN TIMES I WAS FEARLESS • by Claire Lawrence

February 16, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The first time I drove the entire way up Emigration Canyon and realized the freeway connected to Park City and it was as though all the barriers I’d grown up with fell down. The first time I drove my car… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories academia, Claire Lawrence, Disneyland, fear, oceans, writers

ABCs • by Madeira Miller

October 8, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The school bus can fit about eighty students, give or take, but there are only twenty-six that live on my route. That’s the only reason I agreed to get on this horrific hell-machine in the first place; the number twenty-six… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories Madeira Miller, school bus

IT MATTERS • by Kristin Beaven

September 28, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Good morning, has the pain stopped yet?” I stopped and stared at her. She had a big smile on her young face, her red apron was covered with splashes of syrup and coffee creamer, her pony tail was bristling and… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories cafés, kindness, Kristin Beaven, pain

THE LOST DRAFTS DEPARTMENT • by John Eric Vona

September 15, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I was about to give up when the hold music — a few looping bars of infuriating non-jazz — abruptly cut out. “Hello, Lost Drafts,” a voice said. I fumbled with the receiver. “Hi, I uh… I was told to… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Inspirational, Literary, Stories customer service, John Eric Vona, writers

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