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THE DEPARTMENT OF MORTALITY VICTIMS • by Cameron A. Tobias

September 21, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Impatient. That’s the first word most people use to describe me. My friends always tease me for how easily annoyed I get when waiting for our food at a restaurant. Well, they would tease me. When I was alive that… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories afterlife, Cameron A. Tobias

FRIENDS FOREVER • by Megan Scudellari

February 4, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The street outside Dregs Coffee Hut was bustling and noisy. A pink and yellow awning flapped above the café door. Inside, the air was cooler than normal; cashiers wore sweaters under their aprons. Students jostled in line for coffee and… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal afterlife, cafés, Megan Scudellari

THAT OTHER AUSTIN SEVERS • by David VonAllmen

March 26, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Austin Severs came to with a gasp. He didn’t feel the first lick of pain. What in the high hell? He’d been stabbed. Clean through the heart. By the serrated pincer of a Neptunian warlord that other Austin Severs had… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Science Fiction, Stories afterlife, David VonAllmen, teleportation

THIS ISN’T SO BAD • by Ceeley S Mack

February 19, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I died screaming. That happens when a three hundred pound hell-cat eats your face. But, I woke up, so it was a little anticlimactic. I always thought I’d be awed by what I saw on the other side. But, nah,… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories afterlife, Ceeley S Mack

WAITING • by Gary Zenker

July 8, 2017Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

“Why do guys die first?” my friend Bob asked the new guy sitting on the bench. New Guy looked up and squinted as the light was silhouetting Bob’s and my standing figures from behind, probably offering a halo effect. “I… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal afterlife, Gary Zenker, golf

DOORS WE OPEN • by Haley Brett

July 7, 2017Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

They moved methodically, sorting, stacking and wrapping the coins into neat little towers guarded by paper. They were a testimony to how diverging paths converged, to how differing means all led to the same end. They were murderers, janitors, store… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories afterlife, Haley Brett

MY JOB IS HELL • by K.G. Anderson

March 6, 2017Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

Up at 5, take the hellhound walkies, then catch the Underground to Styxbridge for a bagel with sulfur spread. They say Hell is other people, but somehow I’m always alone. I trot along the hot lavawalk to the office, clutching… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Humour / Satire, Stories afterlife, K.G. Anderson

CAST OUT • by Chris Dean

January 12, 2017Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

The thin man sat at the end of the bench, his large hands twisting around one another nervously. The sharp brown eyes sunk over his bony cheeks shifted around the dark room. He scrutinized the figures dressed in gray and… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Historical, Stories afterlife, Chris Dean, Erwin Rommel, J. Robert Oppenheimer

AN EPISODE BELOW • by Mel Staten

October 22, 2015Every Day Fiction 2 Comments

Her bare feet lightly touch down on the bed of coals, moving forward. They should stop in heated agony, but onwards they move despite burning soles as she counts steps toward blistering burns. How oddly beautiful it is, a lake… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories afterlife, Mel Staten

LETTERS TO HELL • by Charles Payseur

May 26, 2014Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

I sit at my desk and stare at the directory in front of me, its physical weight like some joke from the past, an analog nightmare that seems almost ironic next to the smart phone that I’m using to scan… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories afterlife, Charles Payseur

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