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FRIENDS FOREVER • by Megan Scudellari

February 4, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The street outside Dregs Coffee Hut was bustling and noisy. A pink and yellow awning flapped above the café door. Inside, the air was cooler than normal; cashiers wore sweaters under their aprons. Students jostled in line for coffee and… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal afterlife, cafés, Megan Scudellari

CATCHING UP • by Ezgi Üstündağ

December 6, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The silence was a few minutes deep. The pair had surrendered to it when they ran out of stories about mutual friends from the three years since their last rendezvous. The boy used the lull to sip his americano; today’s… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cafés, Ezgi Üstündağ, reunions

NOTES REGARDING THE CALAMITY JUKEBOX AT THE SUPER! HERO! RAGTIME CAFÉ • by Jude-Marie Green

November 2, 2018Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

We occupied the café, waiting, as always waiting, bathed in music constantly spinning from the Wurlitzer 1015, the Bubbler, the smells of bacon and coffee ever present. We waited on doom, on disaster, on mobilization to rescue the hapless. We… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories, Surreal cafés, Jude-Marie Green, superheroes

MEETING OF A LIFETIME • by David Batteiger

October 5, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There is an energy in the room, I’m sure, but I can barely notice it over my own anxiety. I share the space with around twenty others, but I know they can’t compare to my devotion and appreciation of his… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories cafés, David Batteiger, fan conventions, first date, meet cute

JURY DUTY • by Dana Hufe

May 21, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

They had met at jury duty. A strange place to find an admirer. She didn’t want to go. It was raining out, and she had been watching a movie on her couch. She hadn’t moved much from her couch in… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories cafés, Dana Hufe

HIJABI BARISTA • by Regina Higgins

December 19, 2017Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

We’d already had the sign out for three days, and no real prospects. You’d think with the plant closed and the holidays so close, we’d have got a few bites, at least. But only Ron came in, and that was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bigotry, cafés, food servers, Regina Higgins

THE USUAL • by Heidi Espenscheid Nibbelink

July 23, 2017Every Day Fiction 23 Comments

The loud man says, “You know how to tell he’s lying — when his lips are moving,” like it’s news. Across the room the man with the butterfly bandage taped across the bridge of his nose thinks he’s the one… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cafés, food servers, Heidi Espenscheid Nibbelink

PLAYING REALITY • by Taylor Shepeard

July 17, 2017Every Day Fiction 28 Comments

Tension builds as the line grows, its tail of bodies winding around the wooden bar. Kaleb eyes the people entering, frenzied in their need to start the day with caffeine. Dreary-eyed, he’s tempted to take a long swig of the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories cafés, coffee, gaming, Taylor Shepeard

IT COULD BE US • by Alexander Burns

September 13, 2012Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

The prisoner possessed an incredible capacity for anguish. We crushed entire galaxies, literally crushed them beneath our boots (BOOTS device of course but who can remember what the acronym stands for?), and he would not give up his associates. So… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Alexander Burns, cafés, supercolliders
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