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PENGUINS CAN’T FLY • by Ashley Malkin

October 23, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I was eleven years old when I learned that penguins, in fact, are incapable of flight. It may seem like a mundane — even embarrassing — revelation, but to me, it changed the course of my life. Five years prior… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Ashley Malkin, books, children, imagination, penguins

THE LIBRARY GHOST • by Lauryn Mercredi

August 21, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Oscar stood in the atrium of the central branch of the city library. It was midnight and the only illumination came from amber lights along the walls and the red Exit signs, creating a surreal glow. Oscar inhaled the slight… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories afterlife, books, friendship, ghosts, Lauryn Mercredi, libraries

PERCEPTIONS OF MELODY • by Amber A. Logan

June 9, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

From the day we moved into the house, I could sense we weren’t alone. My husband jokingly calls me “his little psychic,” and trivializes my perceptions, so I resolved this time to keep silent. The house was offered fully furnished… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal Amber A. Logan, books, ghosts, marriage

LIBRARY BOOKS • by Kait Leonard

March 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Dusty, peeling eucalyptus trees lined the dirt walkway that led from the library back to my grandma’s house. I carried four books, all I was allowed to check out, close to my chest. I walked quickly, eyes cast to the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories books, Kait Leonard, pre-teens

BABEL • by Paul Dicken

January 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

One of the most notorious episodes in the Aleph Club’s history of course was the time it agreed to purchase an infinite library from a mysterious South American salesman passing through on business. “It will be just like that time… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories books, clubs, libraries, Paul Dicken

THE VANISHING • by Alun Williams

May 28, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In a box of mixed up secondhand books, something needs to stand out. This one did. Its title, How to Disappear; Vanishment Made Easy, caught my eye at once, mixed in with cheap novels from the Fifties and various “How… Continue Reading →

Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Stories Alun Williams, books, disappearances, poisoning

LOSS • by Marianne Brems

February 22, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Emily closed the book she had been reading to her sister Stacy. She squeezed it tightly for a forever moment before letting it go. It reassured her to think that the pages with no space between them all reinforced each… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories books, hospice, Marianne Brems, siblings

INDIGESTIBLE BOOKS • by Ronald M. Larsen

November 10, 2017Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

I’m one (perhaps the last one) of those genetically mutated humans who thrives on cellulose and ink to the exclusion of all other food. When Papa died in ’90, I bought a huge collection of books at the Ossing estate… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Science Fiction, Stories books, hunger, Ronald M. Larsen

THE ETERNAL GOODNIGHT • by Laura Blackwell

April 30, 2015Every Day Fiction 25 Comments

I’m Nobody — not the one in Emily Dickinson’s poem, although we share the same views. Tonight, you will find me in the grim green room. When in this room — and I’m dragged back here all too often —… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories books, Laura Blackwell, parenting

BETWEEN THE LINES • by Benjamin Sixsmith

March 7, 2015Every Day Fiction 33 Comments

I lost my job and my girlfriend on the same day. Trudging back from the office after being dismissed I found the flat empty and the jar we had crammed with savings half as full as it had been. In… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Benjamin Sixsmith, books, bookstores

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