From the Editors
We hope you’re enjoying good weather and (if this is a holiday long weekend for you) any parades, barbecues, or other festivities you might have planned. Cheers!
For Readers
For Canada Day (sort of, anyway) we have “It’s About a Moose?” by Townsend Walker, and for Independence Day, we have “Subdivision Smack-Down” by Mary Ann Back. Then, for Bastille Day on July 14th, we have “Bouffant” by Samantha Memi.
We’re also bringing you some nice ghost stories for summer camp-out nights, mixed in with the usual eclectic blend of genres and voices.
Do you ever wonder what makes a top story? What grabs the most reads, generates the biggest buzz, gets the highest reader votes, and so on? Barry Friesen‘s story “Hat Trick” was the top story for May 2011 at EDF — he was interviewed by Erin Kelly at Flash Fiction Chronicles last month.
For Writers
Apparently July is Flash Fiction Month over at deviantART. Why not write a flash fiction piece a day with them?
Our editors are still looking for a few summer stories and we’re ready for end-of-summer, back-to-school and Labour Day pieces too.
Don’t forget, August is the last month of stories eligible for The Best of Every Day Fiction Four — if you want a chance to be included in our next anthology, better get those stories in quick! And if you’re new to EDF and don’t know about our best-of book series, you should definitely check it out.
And now, on to the stories for July…
July’s Table of Contents
| Jul 1 | Townsend Walker | It’s About a Moose? |
| Jul 2 | Moana Brantwood | The Unwanted Wish |
| Jul 3 | Charlotte Nash | The Two Boys |
| Jul 4 | Mary Ann Back | Subdivision Smack-Down |
| Jul 5 | Ruth Schiffmann | Deep Water |
| Jul 6 | Annie Tupek | Eve of Destruction |
| Jul 7 | Virgie Townsend | Even When |
| Jul 8 | Gale Haut | Tentacular |
| Jul 9 | Sandra Crook | Ouma and the Wood Pigeon |
| Jul 10 | Sophie Playle | Screaming Red Paint |
| Jul 11 | Stephen Duffin | Maud |
| Jul 12 | Sylvia Hiven | Not Enough Venus |
| Jul 13 | Wayne Scheer | A Good Citizen |
| Jul 14 | Samantha Memi | Bouffant |
| Jul 15 | Carla Sarett | For Better or Worse |
| Jul 16 | A.I. Wright | Heaven for Heroes |
| Jul 17 | Dean Giles | Harold Smalls’ Big Adventure |
| Jul 18 | Paul Salvette | A Daughter’s Inquiry |
| Jul 19 | Jeff Samson | Let The Bastards See Your Teeth |
| Jul 20 | Michael Peralta | Scholar’s Mate |
| Jul 21 | Randall Brown | Shades |
| Jul 22 | Jamie Feldman | Rubber Boots |
| Jul 23 | Jonathan Ruland | The Sounds in the Woods |
| Jul 24 | Mary J. Daley | Long Ago and Far Away |
| Jul 25 | Christopher Allen | …and Counting |
| Jul 26 | Gay Degani | Oranges |
| Jul 27 | Isabella Boettcher | Eggs |
| Jul 28 | JR Hume | The Woman in Blue |
| Jul 29 | Henry Lara | My Death in Three Parts |
| Jul 30 | Mark Oliver | Great-Grandma’s Hands |
| Jul 31 | Douglas Campbell | Dead In Blue Heaven |
