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TEN YOGURTS AND YOU • by Laura Foulger

June 18, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I could picture it clearly. I’d hear her squeaky-trainer footsteps on the landing. She’d put her head round my bedroom door. She’d widen her eyes at me — her version of a smile, an ‘I’m-glad-to-see-you, let-me-take-you-in’ sort of gesture. She’d… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cemeteries, death, dieting, food, Laura Foulger, memories

OH BEE CITY • by Michele Baron

August 19, 2017Every Day Fiction 50 Comments

It’s summer again. Bikini season. I try to lose weight, really. I exercise, drink water, cut calories. I try to emulate slender people, slender species — to learn, and become something greater, well, thinner, but greater than myself in the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories bees, dieting, Honey Bee Day, Michele Baron

FAT VLAD • by Kip Hanson

October 28, 2016Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

Vladimir loves vampires. Ever since the night spent huddled on the couch, peering from beneath a blanket while watching Blood of Dracula on his mother’s little black and white television, he’s been hooked. He faked the flu during grade school… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories dieting, Kip Hanson, vampires

HALLOWEEN O’HUNGERING • by Dustin Adams

October 26, 2015Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Jennifer was hungry. So, so hungry. She gazed out the 13th story window of the office tower in which she was trapped. The police cars that blocked each cross street sent beacons of blue and red spinning into the urban,… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories dieting, Dustin Adams, Halloween, zombies

A LITTLE BIT OF A GOOD THING • by elissa vann struth

July 10, 2009Every Day Fiction 19 Comments

It is spring. She is at the first farmers’ market of the season. Here is the early lettuce, the Swiss chard, the spring peas. “I’m growing the peas in a cold frame,” the stall owner tells her. He wears an… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories dieting, elissa vann struth
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