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CHRISTMAS UNRAVELLED • by Katie Holloway

December 27, 2022Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

This should have been our best Christmas yet. But it all comes unravelled with the prick of a needle. Jake has become so blasé about these finger prick tests that he doesn’t even notice the message when it first pings… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories bureaucracy, Christmas, family, illness, Katie Holloway

SKINLESS • by Chester Onion

May 30, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The news says that today’s temperature is the highest recorded in twenty-five years. With this comes a choking humidity. To relieve myself of the oppressive weather, I take off my skin, unzipping it from the back. Immediately I’m rewarded with… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal Chester Onion, family, heat wave

DUST • by Jordi Torres Barroso

March 23, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In the morning, Mrs. Anderson said: “We’re all just dustbins. You and I are no different from cobwebs or used paper plates. Everything inside us gets swept away by the wind eventually.” By afternoon, Principal Lopez was standing in the… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories family, Jordi Torres Barroso

A FAMILY REUNION • by Kan Ito

March 22, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

If I saw all my ex-boyfriends on the train, I would not be surprised. There’s a section called the Transbay Tube that most commuters take and it is crowded. Breathing in there can be difficult sometimes and nobody was free… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories California, family, immigration, Japan, Kan Ito, public transit, trains

LIVING IN THE COUNTRY • by Chris Bruce

February 22, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

How a moose got into the cabin, I do not know. We’d been down to Rosa’s café for a hot bowl of chili verde on a cool night, and I could’ve sworn I closed the door on our way out.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories cabins, Chris Bruce, family, moose, parenting

A WHITE (NEÉ FLYNN) CHRISTMAS • by Jamie Ryan Anderson

December 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It didn’t snow this year, but it doesn’t matter. Mrs White (née Flynn) doesn’t like the snow anyway. It makes her joints flare up and she’s turning seventy next year, you know. She doesn’t need the bother. And anyway, the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christmas, family, Jamie Ryan Anderson

WE LEARN FROM ALL YOUR BEAUTY • by E.S. Dial

December 23, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I “We get in, get the tree, get out,” says Dad. “Got it?”Football begins in less than two hours; my family is on the clock. II Marc points out that Christmas trees do not grow in Bethlehem. It would be… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christmas trees, E.S. Dial, family, LGBTQ, siblings, traditions

ESTRANGEMENT • by Miranda Keskes

December 17, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Grandma, did your son die?” I gasp at my six-year-old’s innocent question to my mom. We are outside on the patio, enjoying pasta salad and barbecue, lost in mundane conversation about swimming lessons and arranging who will pick up the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories family, Miranda Keskes

THANKSGIVING • by Gordon Pinckheard

November 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The day started tense. Not what Marie wanted on her day off work. The family all knew that there was to be a “proper” Thanksgiving dinner. And then Dad said he was going to join the lads at Dave’s to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories American Thanksgiving, family, Gordon Pinckheard, Thanksgiving

SURVIVAL • by E.V. Zukowski

November 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I read an article recently about harp seals. How their mothers abandon them just twelve days after they’re born, left to the elements, floating on ice in the frigid ocean. Biologists say it teaches the seal pups survival, lessons of… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories E.V. Zukowski, family, LGBTQ, Michigan, Thanksgiving

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