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RADIUM • by Julia Collins

March 30, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Her husband knew about the closet stacked with art supplies. The paints, pencils, pastels, dozens of brushes of varying quality. Chalk, charcoal, and graphite. After Emma turned three, she dedicated a corner to craft supplies, glitter, stickers, markers and crayons.… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories art, death of a child, Julia Collins

A FEATHER’S EYE • by Kim Bundy

January 4, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The people in charge seat me under some bright lights and put my painting on an easel. I meet Sebastian, an art expert, and my heart starts knocking. I’m thrilled to be chosen, to have something so special. That is,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories art, intolerance, Kim Bundy, LGBTQ, parenting

THE WOLF AT THE DOOR • by Mary Sloat

May 4, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The painting in the living room gave me a funny feeling. It followed me around the room like those pictures with eyes that never look away. Only this painting had no eyes. It was a swirl of reds and pinks… Continue Reading →

Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Stories art, baking, Mary Sloat, wolves

AUSTRALIA • by Richard Sensenbrenner

July 7, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My spaceship lands in Australia and I come out with a big gun, to shoot lions. Mommy won’t let me have a gun. Mommy asked me where I wanted to go on vacation. I said somewhere where there’s no relatives.… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories art, parenting, Richard Sensenbrenner, school

THE MONA LISA OF COSTCO • by Jill Bronfman

July 6, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The Louvre is not Costco but sometimes it is. Entering quickly through the Rue Rivoli Richelieu side entrance using my museum pass instead of buying a ticket was a source of infinite joy that would last me for days. Before… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal art, Jill Bronfman, museums, The Louvre, The Mona Lisa

PAINTING • by Michael Chapey

August 5, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He painted her a picture. He showed it to her one Tuesday, after she got off work. He had been working on it for a while and finally decided it was finished. He knew he was done with the painting,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories art, artists, birthdays, Michael Chapey, office life

EYES • by Scott Sinclair

May 16, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The first stab was dead center between the eyes. The scissors were plunged all the way to the pivot joint then dragged downward slowly, deliberately so. Incision after incision followed. He held the handle so tightly his hand began to… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories art, Scott Sinclair, theft

THE LOOP THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN • by Helen French

April 27, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Deep in the concrete bowels of the Tate Modern, I grow large and choose my form. I become strips of aluminium, curved into arches, then glued together, banded into long cylinders. When I am ready and no one is looking,… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal art, art galleries, Helen French

MIRROR, MIRROR • by A.J. Rocca

April 17, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Tucked away in some little-known corner of time, there once was a glassblower who lived by the sea. In the daring years of his youth, the glassblower would pull all kinds of strange and wonderful shapes from out of colored… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal A.J. Rocca, art, glassblowers

THE RED CARDINAL’S VISIT • by Lisa Tang Liu

December 30, 2017Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

Tommy bolted out of the parking garage elevator as soon as the door opened. A man waiting outside the elevator stood with mouth agape as he watched the toddler fly past him. I dashed after my son. Clad in a… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories art, artists, birds, death of a child, Lisa Tang Liu, parenting

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