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THE FIREWORKS ARE FADING • by Randy Pitts

July 1, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The three of us are sitting on a wooden swing, watching the clouds on the surface of the lake. The chains creak with our every motion. Our son, Percy, is sitting between us. He loves fireworks and is patiently waiting… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories end of a relationship, fireworks, leaving a marriage, parenting, Randy Pitts

WHAT YOU’D SEE AT THE HOUSE IF I CHANGED MY MIND AND LET YOU IN • by Claudia Wair

March 12, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

1. Five flowerpots on the patio. All the flowers are dead. Geraniums, petunias, lobelia. I kept forgetting to water them. I think my mind is too full to remember such things. It’s a shame. The flowers were pretty. 2. The… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Claudia Wair, end of a relationship

KEEP, TRASH, OR GIVE AWAY? • by Alex Moersen

March 11, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He was cleaning out the bathroom when he saw the vibrator. Its pink-purple color vibrant against the white drawer. He picked it up and sighed while he studied it. He walked into the bedroom, where four piles sat at his… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories Alex Moersen, end of a relationship

THE TRAIN BACK • by Oliver Revolta

January 3, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On the train between Newton Abbot and Topsham, Jimmy Vincetore was thinking about the same journey he had made the previous week, same line, same stops, same time of the night. The main difference was that last week he had… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, end of a relationship, Oliver Revolta, trains

DATAMANCER • by David Vonderheide

January 11, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Kyva rode into town on the Equinox, rounding on the throughway just as Milan finished deconjuring the holospirits. He’d pulled apart each line of code methodically, to ensure no malware could spawn in their wake, and the shimmering whales and… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stories David Vonderheide, end of a relationship, magic, technology

THE PIANO MAN • by Jen Eve Taylor

June 16, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Friday night I played another piano bar. If you’d told my younger self that all those years of practice would amount to this… Well, I probably would have been ecstatic, to be perfectly honest. But I was young and dumb… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bars, end of a relationship, Jen Eve Taylor, musicians

THE TURNING POINT • by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

March 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In that dreary mid-March, mid-semester time, Larry found it hard to get up. Long after his wife, Cheryl, left the house for her student sewing circle and after his own alarm sounded, he lay awake. He listened to a dragging… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, end of a relationship, Ides of March, infidelity, Maggie Nerz Iribarne

THE MELODRAMA GONE • by Anita Kane

June 10, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

i. It was a pleasant spring after the hard winter of the break-up with Colin. Getting him out was impossible, so I moved to a smaller apartment. I was a bit worried about securing the kid, but Colin was crushed… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Anita Kane, end of a relationship

THE MAP • by Jennie Hunter

May 6, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The map on the wall had already begun to slip, curling at one edge as it pulled away from the painted white brick. “So, that’s where she is,” his best friend Evan muttered as Judd grabbed two cold beers from… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories end of a relationship, Jennie Hunter, lost love, maps
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