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THE NIGHT CREW • by Carl Robinette

January 8, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night, or maybe I don’t want to. I don’t know, but sometimes when I don’t sleep I drive to the supermarket nearby which never closes. In the deep end of the night there are few… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories babies, Carl Robinette, grocery stores, night shift workers

WASH AWAY • by Thomas J. Misuraca

September 22, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Outside, a winter storm turned the world into a wonderland of white. A strong wind whistled around the corners of the house and shook the window of the bathroom where Darcy bathed her son, William. It didn’t matter how dark… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories babies, parenting, Thomas J. Misuraca

GOALPOSTS • by T.Y. Euliano

May 15, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Why do we have to rotate on Labor and Delivery?” I say. “It has nothing to do with neurosurgery.” “Oh for God’s sake,” Sheila says. “Maybe you’ll get lucky and some poor pregnant woman will have a brain tumor, just… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories babies, doctors, hospitals, T.Y. Euliano

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO YOU: AN ORAL ESSAY TO MY NEWBORN DAUGHTER THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE MATERNITY WARD AT 3 AM • by Sam Rebelein

July 5, 2018Every Day Fiction 2 Comments

Your mom actually likes her family. I was just thinking about that. It was the first thing I loved about her. I loved how simple it seemed, and how much it made me ache. See, we met at a bar.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories babies, family, love, parenting, Sam Rebelein

ITERATION 9 • by Stephen Buoro

March 21, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He was a perfect baby. He never cried. He rarely pooped. He told me everything with his eyes: hunger, lovesickness, cold. His eyes: large grey irises, watery, luminous, like the eyes of the cat my ma had put to sleep… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories, Surreal babies, Stephen Buoro

INGRATITUDE • by Pavelle Wesser

January 21, 2017Every Day Fiction 6 Comments

The board members cowered in their oxblood leather chairs as the baby toddled toward them in a diaper, raising his pudgy arms. “Welcome, I am Damien — new chairman of the board.” Damien’s eyes glittered as he took a seat,… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal babies, cigars, parenting, Pavelle Wesser

ONE LOUD EASTER • by Brendan Bourque-Sheil

March 31, 2013 14 Comments

Maternity wards are noisy places by nature and Dr. Barnes had no desire to add to tonight’s cacophony by arguing for a C-section his patient didn’t want. The delivery room, buzzing with a small sisterhood of girlfriends, one dumbstruck husband,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories babies, Brendan Bourque-Sheil, Easter, giving birth

TRUTH • by Kathleen Mack

September 19, 2007Every Day Fiction 44 Comments

She looked out the window as the pain slipped into a distant place within her. She tried to focus on the clouds gathering. It had been months since rain. Leaves, prematurely brown, drifted slowly past the window. The clock marked… Continue Reading →

Stories babies, giving birth, Kathleen Mack
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