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THE JINX • Bill Cox

March 19, 2025Every Day Fiction 11 Comments

Jacob, a TV journalist for a regional station, was setting up the shot with Tommy, his cameraman, when Eris first approached him. “I saw what happened,” she said. “You saw the trampoline take off?” Jacob asked, giving her a quick… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Bill Cox, curses, journalists

SAVING DAYLIGHT • Vincent Casaregola

March 9, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

First day of a new spring still dawns gray and drear, dampness lingering in the chill morning air, and this will persist, forecasters say, for several more. But then the sun, at last comes sun, yellow gold morning and evening,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal Daylight Savings, spring, Vincent Casaregola

ONE TRUE FAN • by Clare Feliz Tan

January 27, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

When Ella Marie first woke up one morning with a rechargeable desk fan for a head, she found it infuriating that nobody noticed the change. Her husband’s calm, breakfast-in-mouth greeting of “You look lovely as always, dear,” made her want… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal Clare Feliz Tan, transformation

DON FERNANDO’S PEACOCKS • by William Kitcher

January 17, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Don Fernando had acquired great wealth throughout his life, some of it even legally. He built himself a huge bungalow mansion on the crest of a hill overlooking his property — a Celtic orange grove, a tennis court, a hedge… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal peacocks, wealth, William Kitcher

GHOST-BOYFRIEND COMES TO DINNER • by Chelsea Sutton

January 16, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You bring your ghost-boyfriend to your parents’ house for dinner. And everyone immediately freaks out. “What are you talking about? A GHOST for a BOYFRIEND,” says your father after he comes around to the reality that this isn’t a prank.… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Chelsea Sutton, family, ghosts

MAGICIAN’S PET • by Michelle Hoeckel-Neal

January 14, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

As a tadpole, I spent my days lounging atop the spongey remains of yesterday’s dinner or soaking in the gurgling, acrid pool I called home. I whipped my tongue at falling bits of meat and beans. When bored, I practiced… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal frogs, illusionists, Michelle Hoeckel-Neal

ALL OUT OF HAPPINESS • by Debbie Sschroff

January 11, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“I’m sorry,” said the clerk looking down on me with a sympathetic look on her face, “but we’re all out of Joy. Could I interest you in a box of Cheerfulness?” I looked at the shelf and saw the gaping… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories, Surreal Debbie Sschroff, happiness

THE COLLECTOR • Alex Salinas

December 14, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The Collector, through no shortage of hearsay, means and compulsion, met one M. Muñoz underneath the Old Bridge. Birthplace unknown, age unknown, first name unknown, dubious wedding band on ring finger, Muñoz bled into his work—cut open his body and… Continue Reading →

Horror, Literary, Stories, Surreal Alex Salinas, artists

TIME AND SPACE • Becky Jones

December 3, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Jenny had swallowed time and space. A lot of it. And now she was feeling…what? Bloated? Yes. Reflux? Maybe. Heartburn? Definitely. “Have some time. Have some space.” Mark, her boss, had instructed on that initial dreadful day—without her husband, with… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal Becky Jones, consolation, grief

THE DOWNFALL OF HUMMERSTONE HOUSE • Kathryn Hatchett

November 29, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I knew I was condemned from the moment they took the gold candlesticks. They ripped up the carpets and tore aged curtains from their oak rails. Workers clad in grey overalls lifted every part of me away, chucking it into… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal ghosts, hauntings, Kathryn Hatchett, manors

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