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OLD GREENVILLE’S GHOSTS • by Elizabeth “Liz” Enochs

January 19, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Eleanor hovered over the crowd for half the pageant before spotting him: baseball cap, sunglasses, one hand thrust deep into his pocket, the other snapping photo after photo of “Little Miss Missouri Ozarks” contestants. There was always at least one… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories alcohol, Elizabeth “Liz” Enochs, ghosts

THE TIPPER’S CURSE • by Victor Bondar

August 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The mushrooms are poisonous, but locals eat them, says the Gastronome Guide to Ireland.  I’m not a foodie. I plucked this guide from a free magazine stand at the Ballybunion bus station, and now I’m curious.  “Have you tried inkcap… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories alcohol, hotels, mushrooms, paramedics, tourists, Victor Bondar

FIRST COMMUNION • by Thomas Baldwin

May 16, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In my defense, Mom shouldn’t have kept the Communion elements in the rumpus room. In her defense, the room wasn’t used much. As an only child, it’s hard to make a rumpus, especially when being the minister’s daughter renders you… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories alcohol, gambling, LGBTQ, priests, teenagers, Thomas Baldwin

ABBIE SUGARMAN’S BEST DECISION • by Dick Noble

April 25, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Abbie rose from the couch when she heard the key rattle in the lock and the thump of Troy’s boots hitting the floor. It was two in the morning. Troy staggered into their apartment, mumbling a slurred story about pub… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories alcohol, Dick Noble, infidelity, revenge, smartphones

BODY ART • by Ruby Zehnder

March 2, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Wow, that’s gorgeous. Where’d you get it?” Mariel asked Reno. “That new place on Main Street.” Mariel admired the tattoo and touched it lightly with her fingertips. His skin was cool to the touch, and the tri-color tat popped against… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcohol, bars, Holocaust survivors, Ruby Zehnder, tattoos

UNDER MY SKIN • by Joely Opie-Harris

January 2, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

(content warning: rape) I close my eyes and the quiet, black space around me is filled with you. Do you think of me too? I wonder if you do. Wonder if that night is still carved into your wrists, wriggling… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcohol, Joely Opie-Harris, rape, teenagers

I’M GETTING OFF THE BUS! • by Jane Brown

July 12, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Down McLaren, right on First. Argh, I know this friggin’ bus route off by heart. Haunt a bus, they said; it’ll be fun, they said. Sure, it’s fun for late-night-thrills but the monotony is going to make me lose it.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories, Surreal alcohol, fathers, ghosts, Jane Brown, public transit

JUST A BOBBLEHEAD • by Scott S. Bateman

September 12, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Bobblehead. I’m a bobblehead, he thought, and smiled at the mental picture of an Albert Einstein one that he saw online one time. It woke him up slightly, which he needed to do; falling asleep in public would be embarrassing.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories alcohol, infidelity, Scott S. Bateman, weddings

MOONSHINE • by H.K. Slade

July 21, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Amile sat across the room from him, sipping a glass of clear moonshine. He watched her, watched the warm glow rise in her cheeks, so much like a blush. She sighed contentedly and opened her eyes. She looked at his… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories alcohol, alcoholism, H.K. Slade

THREE BINTANGS • by J. H. Brauer

May 11, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There is a round man, and every day he drinks three long-necks of Bintang from the same white sun lounge on the black sands of Echo Beach. I monitor him from a subtle five lounges down the row because the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories alcohol, beaches, J. H. Brauer

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