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THE EDITOR • by Z. Hanna Mahon

March 24, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The main problem with the workshop was that we were all writing in different languages. Each of us. I came to understand it as part of a study led by a professor of linguistics, though I’m not sure that story… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal academia, editors, writers, Z. Hanna Mahon

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

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

TVOROG • by Katherine Gleason

November 25, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The hallway smelled of cabbage, yet Suzanne remained optimistic. Despite her heavy boots, she bounded up the stairs, clutching the slip of paper Yuri had inscribed with his address. Yuri and Irina had invited her, their first American friend, home.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, food, Katherine Gleason, Russia

NERVOSI AUGUSTA • by Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner

September 9, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It always began and ended in the same way. May heralded the end of the college semester with heartfelt goodbyes, posted grades, and celebratory cocktails. June brought slumber with no alarms, lazy snacking, and beachy reading. But July tapped at… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories academia, back to school, Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner, summer

LOVE • by Lise Brody

August 26, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Getting married wearing nothing but whipped cream seemed like a terrible idea. So Gemma thought: why not? That is to say, she knew why not. But even so. Then too, what would Bryan wear? There would a terrible imbalance in… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, crushes, Lise Brody, weddings

THE TEACHERS • by Kevin Tasker

April 21, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Hank sat listening to Oliver describe the car for the fifth time, trying to look engaged, though he couldn’t help the occasional glance past the young man into the kitchen where his pitcher of martinis was waiting. If he suggested… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, Kevin Tasker

THE SUM OF IT ALL • by Jessica Woodward

December 17, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It was curious, Dr Harold felt, that he should have been working on his Fibonacci paper that December. As a rule, he tried not to notice workplace festive japes. The explanation he felt most comfortable giving himself was that it… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories academia, Advent calendars, Fibonacci, Jessica Woodward, mathematics

ANOTHER DAY AT THE JOB • by Wayne Scheer

January 28, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

As I was preparing for class, Lois Blaylock, a fellow member of the English department, burst into my office looking like she had just caught the dean in a compromising position with a chicken. She had been my mentor through… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories academia, LGBTQ, pregnancy, Wayne Scheer

THE REAL STORY OF THE FIRST CANADIAN THANKSGIVING • by Peter Wood

October 9, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

Professor Henri Dubois materialized behind a rock outcropping. Dizzy and disoriented, he fought the urge to throw up. His wrist tracker said October 9, 1578. A half hour until the auto retrieval yanked him back to Carlton University in 21st… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Science Fiction, Stories academia, Canada, Canadian Thanksgiving, Peter Wood

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