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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

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

THIS IS WHAT ALWAYS HAPPENS • by Erica Evelyn Simmonds

July 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Every time we get together we cook too much, and then we eat too much. Even though our parents did their best to try and teach us proper table manners, we hunch our backs, put our elbows on the table… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories cooking, death of a parent, Erica Evelyn Simmonds, family, food, siblings

BRITTLE • by Elaine Mead

July 14, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I watched her as much as she pretended not to watch me. My little sister. Wasn’t the youngest the baby? Wasn’t she supposed to be subject to our parents’ worries? Their touches of melancholy? I remember when she would beg… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories beaches, Elaine Mead, family, physical disability, siblings

FOURTH OF JULY • by Emily Clemente

July 4, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We are hungry, so hungry we could eat the whole world. Everything smells like ketchup. We could eat the trees, we could eat the sun. The glass lights on the deck twinkle like little candy stars, and we could eat… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories children, Emily Clemente, family, Independence Day

AVE • by Tara Williams

June 8, 2021Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

He sits down next to me at the picnic table, his back against the red-and-white checkered tabletop, his long legs extending out on the grass. He turns to me and smiles the friendly smile of a man who is comfortable… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories dementia, family, fathers, Tara Williams

HE • by Kyle Ross

February 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He stares at his nude self in the bathroom mirror. He runs his fingers from his neck down his chest and over his breasts. They’re gentle, fragile, moving across his skin as if one wrong touch and he would break.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories dreams, family, Kyle Ross, LGBTQ, teenagers, transgender

ROSA • by A. J. Bermudez

February 17, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My mother-in-law is a riot. Our first time in New York together, she goes to see the landlord about the rapidly fading battery in the automated door lock and comes back with a date. She makes and consumes coffee late… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories A. J. Bermudez, family, in-laws

HATE HEARTS AND SNOWFLAKES • by Claire Schön

February 13, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Painting the wall seemed like a good idea in early spring. We didn’t exactly have time on our hands, but some had been freed up by not having to commute. As it had become necessary to spend so much time… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories Claire Schön, family, marriage, pandemic, parenting, snow

ATONEMENT • by Y. Y. Browne

January 23, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The clouds broke just before her car turned on Seppatin Drive. The Association had forbidden artificial light on the outer property, at the gates to the outside world. So, to the boy in the high window, the car seemed like… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories cars, family, Y. Y. Browne

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