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MY SISTER • by Mariam Dogar

April 10, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister always amazed me with her lack of interest in everything. She had asthma as a kid. Every winter, as I dragged myself out of bed to attend school, she would be allowed to sleep in late. She was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Mariam Dogar, siblings

SCANDALOUS LUSH • by Linda Saldaña

April 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Rhonda preferred to think of herself as a scandalous lush, which sounded more acceptable, more Dorothy Parkeresque, than what her last lover (hardly a heartthrob, but good company on at least two memorable occasions) had called her — which was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcoholism, Christmas Eve, dogs, food servers, homelessness, Linda Saldaña, restaurants

THE SESSION • by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

April 5, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I knew about her in advance of course; the Hutchings Center had called before they released her to me for subsequent therapy. “Hyper-religiosity. No longer violent, but needs to talk more, and to a woman, I think,” the psychiatric nurse… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories faith, Maggie Nerz Iribarne, nuns, psychotherapy, Virgin Mary

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

A FAMILY REUNION • by Kan Ito

March 22, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

If I saw all my ex-boyfriends on the train, I would not be surprised. There’s a section called the Transbay Tube that most commuters take and it is crowded. Breathing in there can be difficult sometimes and nobody was free… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories California, family, immigration, Japan, Kan Ito, public transit, trains

THE RUIN • by Alan Whelan

March 21, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Singleton is a country town in New South Wales, with about sixteen thousand residents, but on a Monday lunchtime during the Covid lockdown not one of them was on the street. Amelia, lecturer in philosophy of history at Sydney University,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Alan Whelan, alcoholism, Autumnal Equinox, mistaken identity, pilots, strangers

PARADISE • by Laura Brown

March 10, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

She had been talking with the man on the balcony long enough that the beads of condensation on their wine glasses had evaporated. The man’s face reminded her of a beach, full of reddish freckles and seashell-white teeth. Even the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Hawai‘i, Laura Brown, memories, mothers, New Orleans, parties

THE TURNING POINT • by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

March 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In that dreary mid-March, mid-semester time, Larry found it hard to get up. Long after his wife, Cheryl, left the house for her student sewing circle and after his own alarm sounded, he lay awake. He listened to a dragging… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, end of a relationship, Ides of March, infidelity, Maggie Nerz Iribarne

INHERITANCES • by Adele Evershed

March 6, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

self-raising flour caster sugar mixed spice butter lard currant egg milk bread potatoes peas Bisto Delyth looks at the slanted writing, the looping gs, and the capitalized B for Bisto with its flourishes, making even this common-or-garden shopping list look… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Adele Evershed, baking, memories, mothers, St. David's Day, Wales

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

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