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ARTIST • by J.W. Gomez

August 23, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The artist put a wet brush to the canvas, tracing myriad graceful lines that would coalesce, she hoped, into an abominable enough shape. Not in her eyes, perhaps, but her work had a certain reputation among her enthusiasts of late… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories artists, J.W. Gomez

PAINTING IN PEACE • by Arlan Gerig

June 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I sit in front of the blank canvas. There’s only a bright sun in its top right corner. My brush sits full of lemon yellow paint, but a dark tempest dominates my mind. I get gooseflesh as I replay Chuck’s… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Arlan Gerig, art, artists, siblings, sign language, violent crime

ART SCHOOL, 1982 • by Sophia Holme

May 14, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

That Winter, to me, will always be Clare in a bright red cape, puffing on a snowy street. Moving in in January, I dropped a box of my parents’ old crockery down the stairs, and never replaced it. It was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories artists, housemates, missing persons, Sophia Holme

THE ARTISAN ENRIAEL • by Kasey Ragan

August 31, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He loves bright, cold nights like this. I press my form tight against the shadows as a cloud of rank breath steams into the darkness. The watch-wyverns pause at the alley’s entrance and my heart drops, though I know they… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories art galleries, artists, elves, Kasey Ragan, memories, wyverns

MY CONCEPT ART • by JBMulligan

November 26, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

So, I was talking with several of my artworld clients and acquaintances when one of them, Moll E, a concept artiste and massage therapist, mentioned a frame she had in mind for a painting.  The frame would be a life-size… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories art galleries, artists, JBMulligan, Thanksgiving

SCRIBBLES • by Fiona Murphy McCormack

August 1, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

It started out with a scribble. As she dragged a blue crayon across a crumpled sheet of white paper. The messy scrawl was an abstract piece. But like all art, it was a mark from the artist — I am… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories artists, Fiona Murphy McCormack, parenting

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARTISTS • by Angel T. Dionne

May 4, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

I found a sort of skull in the garden. You did? Let me see. I didn’t bring it inside. It’s a skull. Well, what kind of animal is it from? I don’t know. Do I look like a zoologist? All… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories Angel T. Dionne, artists, writers

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

PURPLE • by Katherine Peck

February 13, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Jonathan Crackers dances down our street in an old, patched jacket, singing a song that only he understands, talking to people who aren’t quite there. He’s dressed in purple from head to toe. “An eggplant,” says Jamie who lives down… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories artists, Katherine Peck, psychiatric disorders, siblings

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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