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LARRY • by Justin Cox

January 5, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My older cousin Larry and I sit on the hood of his rust-bitten Caddy, overlooking The Park. We eat greasy burgers as the summer sun slowly melts into the horizon. One day closer to another school year. Everyone in the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories basketball, death of a parent, family, grief, Justin Cox

SEPTEMBER • by Ilse Eskelsen

September 4, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Guinevere!” my mother said. My waking eyes saw everything as slow, disparate images on a just-light background; she was a flash of red athletic wear and a sudden weight on the end of my bed, a frenzied face and a… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death of a parent, Ilse Eskelsen, mothers, teenagers

SLICE • by Barbara Boehm Miller

September 2, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister slices the pie, her lips drawn together in a tight purse, the disapproving grimace of a person performing an unfamiliar task. We sit at the dining room table. I look because I can’t stop myself from staring over… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Barbara Boehm Miller, death of a parent, food, pies, siblings, suicide

FOUL • by Alan Vernon

August 1, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

One swing of the bat and a frozen rope laced foul from the barrel of a 32-ounce bat beaned my Dad straight in the left temple, and he crumpled in my lap. It was opening day. I was ten years… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Alan Vernon, baseball, death of a parent, parenting, sports

AFTER THE FUNERAL • by Alison Jean Ash

May 15, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

After the service, everyone came up to console me. Women enfolded me in scented hugs, cooing like so many mourning doves, “Deepest sympathy,” “So sorry for your loss,” and “She’s in a better place now.”  The men patted my shoulder… Continue Reading →

Horror, Literary, Stories Alison Jean Ash, death of a parent

HAVENLESS • by Emily Marcason-Tolmie

April 29, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My younger brother Ben and I sit shoulder to shoulder on the worn leather couch in our family room. “I promise you both Dad is going to fight this,” my mother quietly says. Her eyes meet mine, and I see… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cancer, death of a parent, Emily Marcason-Tolmie

BALLOONS FOR GRANDAD • by Luke Saldanha

November 1, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My old man’s dad died just a month before I was born. I always wished I’d met him. He was, by all accounts, a real character I’d have enjoyed talking to. Ma’s dad was still with us, so to differentiate… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories balloons, death of a parent, grandparents, Luke Saldanha

HIS GREAT PLAN • by Gary Duncan

June 20, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There’s a dirty brown puddle at the bottom of West Street where the snow has melted and turned to sludge. Not that many years ago she would have dived in with both feet, splashing till her socks and trousers were… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories churches, death of a parent, Gary Duncan, priests

A DAUGHTER’S WAITING • by Reena Thomas

June 18, 2017Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

Her father was still there. She watched as the wrinkled white sheets slowly rose with each breath — a movement so slight it seemed not to justify the word. Sometimes, she would place her head on his chest just to… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories death of a parent, Father's Day, fathers, hospitals, Reena Thomas

ONE MINUTE • by Cara Albert

April 20, 2017Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

The first knife my dad throws at me lands within a couple inches of my right ear. It comes as quite a shock. Not the ‘my dad’s trying to kill me’ part. That’s what he paid fifty dollars to do… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories car accidents, Cara Albert, death of a parent, fathers

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