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THE UNWANTED IDEA • by Sophia Netterfield

July 13, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The tapping of the old man’s fingers against his worn keyboard filled the small room. A tabby cat sat in the corner, drinking from one of a half-dozen partially drunken mugs of tea scattered across the wooden floor and desk.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories cats, faeries, Sophia Netterfield, writers

HUNTING FOR A GIFT • by S. Cameron David

November 29, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

Finn passed between the rusted doors to enter into a most peculiar kind of pet shop. In one corner of the room sat a collection of lizards, not doing much more than lazing about on the rocks. They weren’t much… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories faeries, gifts, pet stores, S. Cameron David

THE GARDEN AND THE GOBLIN • by AJ Benson

September 6, 2017Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

The garden was devastated. Two tall, young faeries had been bickering, and it had turned physical: not pushes and punches, but flames and funnel clouds. Only the castle wall had withstood the elemental forces. “This is YOUR fault,” the blue-eyed… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories AJ Benson, faeries, royalty, siblings

WHO AM I KIDDING? • by Christina Klarenbeek

December 11, 2016Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

I’m seeing things again. Head in my hands my fingers weave through tangled hair pushing it back from my face like the headbands I wore as a little girl, when I only pretended I saw things. I’m not pretending now.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories Christina Klarenbeek, faeries, psychiatric institutions

KILLER GRANDMA • by Jeremy Szal

August 11, 2016Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

Helven may have been over six hundred years old, but she heard the lads breaking in loud and clear. She straightened up in the tattered armchair as the door creaked open. Fey never really slept. Not truly. They always had… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories faeries, Jeremy Szal

BETTER HOMES AND CORGYN • by Philip Wentz

August 24, 2015Every Day Fiction 20 Comments

I had just decided the day couldn’t go on without another pot of Blackheart Vienna Roast when our dog Bogart walked in and announced, “Found the problem, finally, the baastads.”  On any other occasion having one of my corgis address… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories dogs, faeries, Philip Wentz

THE TOOTH FAIRY • by Shivaun Conroy

December 30, 2014Every Day Fiction 34 Comments

She hated him. Granny’s favourite. He’d pushed her and hurt her, and she’d said something nasty to him and repeated it several times. Her grandmother had put her hand over her mouth, spoken about soap and water and vile language… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories faeries, grandparents, Shivaun Conroy, Tooth Fairy
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