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THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT GETTING A CAT • by Dawn Maria Muenchrath

April 29, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The thing you need to understand is none of us liked him from the start. That’s why we weren’t too choked when we first heard about the breakup. It’s not that we didn’t care about my sister. Really, we were… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Romance, Stories breaking up, cats, Dawn Maria Muenchrath, siblings

SEVERANCE • by Michael Snyder

February 20, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

This time, when Sheila breaks up with Rick, she uses fishing line, two bent nails, and her ex-boyfriend’s hammer. She strings the tripwire taut, eight inches high, across the doorframe of his side entrance, guesstimating the placement of the posterboard… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, Michael Snyder

FOIBLES • by Michael Snyder

October 28, 2021Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

I’d forgotten how much I hated small talk until we hit the interstate. Three hours into the trip I pull into a truck stop to buy Meredith a Milky Way and some headphones. My hope was that the caramel might… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, Michael Snyder, road trip

DECLUTTERING • by David Kesmodel

May 20, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On a bright April morning, Paul Cromartie watched Tidying Up with Marie Kondo for the umpteenth time. He decided it would be the last. He canceled his Netflix account, unplugged his television, and placed it by the door. Someone would… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories breaking up, David Kesmodel, job loss, minimalism, thrift store

SMALL SIGNS OF LOVE AND ATTRITION • by EC Sorenson

November 5, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I paid a lot of money to a woman who cleared things up for me. Kelsey, a counsellor. Kelsey said: “You’re misreading his gestures.” “Oh?” I asked. “How so?” “You’re thinking that when Toby gets home and he empties the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, EC Sorenson, relationship problems

TRUMPET • by William Hawkins

September 18, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Your lips on a ram’s horn. A new year. You explained religion as a binary, 0s and 1s. Thou shalt. Thou shalt not. At an early age, or so you told me, you decided your upbringing, centered as it was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories being Jewish, breaking up, Rosh Hashanah, William Hawkins

DECEIT • by Theresa J. Barker

November 29, 2017Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

The frog’s name was Deceit. “Deceit?” I asked Ramona when I got home from work. She gave me that look. Ramona was quite the collector of exotic animals as pets, something not in evidence when we first started going out.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, infidelity, Theresa J. Barker

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEAVENING • by Diane DiGennaro

August 12, 2017Every Day Fiction 8 Comments

Joel left that Friday morning right after the last croissants came out of the oven. He took a loaf of challah bread with him. It was his favorite. Marie expected her soon to be ex would be making massive slabs… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bakeries, breaking up, Diane DiGennaro, food, small business

CAT IN THE SNOW • by Christopher Owen

May 10, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

Jenny saw the cat on a March afternoon that was blustering full-on with a rare Texas snowstorm. She had been staring out into the blue-white dissonance beyond her apartment window, lulled by the gentle drift of the flakes. Snow came… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, cats, Christopher Owen, snow, Texas

AT FIRST SIGHT • by David Lynn Allen

April 10, 2017Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

He tipped the bottle straight up over the glass and shook it. Nothing came out. Empty. After a few failed attempts to set the bottle upright, he laid it on its side and watched it roll the length of the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories alcohol, breaking up, David Lynn Allen, love at first sight

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