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SHOVELBUM • by MacKenzie Tastan

September 30, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Paul looked down at the screen in his hands and sighed. It was the last day of September and he could see the looming winter months of unemployment as clearly as he could see the storm gathering overhead. One bolt… Continue Reading →

Literary, Mystery / Suspense, Stories archaeology, financial hardship, MacKenzie Tastan, temptation

TEETH • by Anna Karras

May 30, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The smoke from mortar fire mixed with fog hung low over the trenches. Heinrich trod the planks over the mud, hands wrapped in rags, rifle slung over one shoulder. Night was falling on the broken and burnt field between him… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Anna Karras, archaeology, war, World War I

THE ANCIENTS AWAKEN • by Aaron Emmel

December 18, 2016Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

The dirt ended just a few yards ahead. Beyond that the tunnel was a cylinder of curving, polished metal that threw back their guttering torchlight. Murphy breathed in deeply. “A human lair. From before the Reckoning.” “Human lairs had traps.”… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stories Aaron Emmel, archaeology, explorers, moles

LONG WALK, SHORT MESA • by Perry McDaid

August 29, 2015Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

In a time when things were bleak, with plagues, witchcraft and inquisitions the party-pieces of fate and corruption, nothing quite so messed up your day like a village idiot. Where there was typhoid, she’d be spitting in your face in… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories archaeology, Perry McDaid

PACKING LIGHT • by Gustavo Bondoni

February 22, 2015Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

The humans were taking too long. They seemed hell-bent on stopping at each and every burial nook and statuette — no matter how badly overrun with cobwebs — to make a little notation. Location, description, photograph number, everything was placed… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories archaeology, cats, Gustavo Bondoni

TOWER OF BAUBLES • by Nicholas Ozment

June 2, 2009Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

“Okay, professor — the joists are all in place, so you don’t have to worry about the ceiling collapsing on your head.” The man in a hardhat stepped aside for the head archeologist. Professor Montague, small and bone-thin, wiped dust… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories archaeology, Nicholas Ozment
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