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SILENCE IN SNOWFALL • by Sydney Beal

May 27, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Bridget grew up hearing legends of the stone angel that guarded the graveyard, but she’d never needed her help until now. Draped in a flowing robe with wings outstretched in a righteous fury, her gaze dared passersby to disturb her… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal angels, cemeteries, death of a parent, Sydney Beal

CHERUBIM • by Julia Heslin

January 2, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Carol dreamt of flight. In sleep she flew past the city limits of her hometown, high above familiar schools and stores and offices. And up higher, where sky became space, became beyond, where there was room to fly, to spread… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories angels, Julia Heslin, parenting

MIRACLE BLEND • by Sharon L. Bachman

June 28, 2017Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

When clothes started falling from the sky I thought the wind blew them off somebody’s line, but when a car battery hit the porch I knew it was another damn tornado comin’. “Are we gonna die, Mommy?” said Suzanne as… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal angels, Sharon L. Bachman, tornadoes

THE FAIRY RING • by Jeff Switt

December 15, 2016Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

The room is dark, nearly black. There ‘s no electricity. The sound of sex from the next room overrides the breathy silence of bodies passed out around me. I try to keep warm, snuggling with my friend, Alicia. We share… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories, Surreal addiction, angels, death, drugs, heroin, Jeff Switt

THE INNOCENT CREATURE • by Sarah Crysl Akhtar

December 8, 2015Every Day Fiction 34 Comments

How many angels can dance on a flake of snow? Winter’s black-nailed hand has come early to the village. From under its beautiful white mantle it will reach deep into the wombs of wives ripening with hope; it will choke… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories angels, cats, December Invitational, Sarah Crysl Akhtar

THE GOD MARK • by Brian Toups

September 10, 2015Every Day Fiction 19 Comments

We’ve all known each other for a long time, since the beginning, and a little while before that. We’ve worked on this assembly line for all of our corporeal lives, and it pleases us to do so. I stamp another… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories angels, Brian Toups

THE WORLD AS SEEN BY ANGELS • by Olivia Berrier

March 1, 2015Every Day Fiction 51 Comments

Angels can only see in metaphors, and this fact tends to be as inconvenient for the Heavenly Hosts as it is for the people we try to help. Each Angel has a unique interpretation of the world. Mine is beaded… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Inspirational, Stories angels, Olivia Berrier

THE SOUTH TOWER • by Samantha Lee

February 24, 2015Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

The sun is setting over the spires of Notre Dame. People hurry past in the square below, stragglers from the evening Mass. Their folded umbrellas look like bats. I stretch my wings. It’s good to move again. “Jacques!” Beside me,… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories angels, gargoyles, Notre Dame Cathedral, Samantha Lee

AND THAT, MY CHILDREN, IS WHY WE CAN’T GO TO SPACE ANYMORE • by Shane Halbach

October 6, 2014Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

God the Almighty stirred the starry firmament. Galaxies swirled and stars were born, their white brilliance standing like beacons against the endless night of space. When the galaxy known as the Milky Way was just the right consistency, God reached… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories angels, astronauts, God, Shane Halbach

GIUSEPPE’S BOUGHS • by Brandon Nolta

August 20, 2013Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

When the car emerged into Hell, the first thing Giuseppe Banca did was squint. Sunshine, strong and warm, shone from a pale yellow sky. Hell’s landscape was a rolling sea of grass and purple-tinged trees, stretching over slight rises and… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories afterlife, angels, Brandon Nolta, demons, gardening

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