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GRIEVING • by Susan Sabia

October 9, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The smell of death isn’t death; it’s food. The smell wafts from the kitchen, permeates the hallway, living room, and dining room of the old colonial. It travels up the stairs in whiffs of almost tangible threads into the two… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, family, food, funeral rites, Susan Sabia

McGILLIGAN’S • by Justin Klose

August 26, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There was the completely avoidable car accident that resulted in the death of our friend Jonah, then there was the funeral, followed by the reception at his mom’s townhouse where everyone kept crying and Jonah’s attractive sister Leah went around… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bars, car accidents, death, Justin Klose

KARMA • by Walter Lacey

May 28, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Sometimes there’s a moment so quiet right after the exhaled breath when there is no breath, and an interval between two lives is suddenly bridged. My name is William, Wendell or Wallace. I’m not sure which. At this moment, it… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal death, siblings, Walter Lacey

COTERIE • by Jacob Pérez

April 21, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Doin’ it myself,” Chris said, lighting a cigarette and inhaling. These are going to kill you. “Yeah?” he said, trying to pay attention to his task over the sound of distant voices. “So can drinking sodas.” Chris looked at his… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories cigarettes, death, Jacob Pérez, psychiatric disorders, psychosis

BORN TO LIVE • by Jeremy Runion

March 4, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

When I was young my brother left for the war. He died several months after in action. He was a hero by all standards. Incredibly jealous was I, but I was born wrong and would forever be denied. A year… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal brothers, death, Jeremy Runion, police, soldiers

PARCHED RIVER, 1980 • by Justin Cox

January 28, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I’ve never shot a gun, and suddenly, Quinton is pressing the grip of a long-nosed revolver into my palm. I don’t anticipate its weight. The chilly steel. We’re cousins, but I’m new to life in Parched River. I’m used to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, farm life, financial hardship, Justin Cox

I HARDLY KNEW DARYL • by Brendon Arnold

January 26, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I was thirteen when Daryl Harrison fell off our grain bin. Zach brought me along once to go visit him in the hospital. I remember clenching onto the plastic railing of the footboard of his bed. It all happened on… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories accidents, Brendon Arnold, death, farm life, siblings

DELETED • by H.E. Vogl

October 6, 2020Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

Arthur’s mouth felt like he bit into a jalapeno when his phone buzzed. It was his dentist. “That bastard better not be trying to cancel my appointment,” he muttered. The light turned green, the car in back of him beeped,… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories death, H.E. Vogl, office life, smartphones

SIDE BY SIDE • by Arlen Feldman

August 14, 2020Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

How could anyone sleep through that? He sounded like an asthmatic chainsaw. The sound wasn’t the worst of it, though. It was those gaps, when the sound ceased, where she hoped that maybe, just maybe he’d stopped — snoring, breathing.… Continue Reading →

Horror, Humour / Satire, Stories Arlen Feldman, death, dreams, marriage, relationship problems

GO TO HELL • by Zoë Däe

August 6, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister was thirteen when she died. All crooked and soft white like a dogwood flower floating on the water. I heard my mother sobbing on the phone that she had broken her neck nearly to a ninety-degree angle, a… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, drowning, lakes, parenting, siblings, Zoë Däe

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