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WHERE MULBERRIES FALL • by Odile Mori

January 18, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In summer, the soles of Eva’s feet were permanently stained crimson from playing barefoot under the huge mulberry tree that to her ten-year-old eyes seemed to take up a full half of her backyard. Every day she ran outside, squashing… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories fathers, food, marriage, mothers, Odile Mori, pies

THE STORYTELLER’S DAUGHTER • by Teresa Thomas

January 5, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Appa grew up in a little boat town in Kerala called Alleppey (pronounced al-ah-pee). He stayed on a little rice paddy farm and bought the essentials 6 months in advance from the boatmen who passed by. “When I was young,”… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories fathers, India, storytellers, Teresa Thomas, writers

THE CARDBOARD FIREPLACE • by Linda Chandanais

December 25, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

She heard a thump downstairs, then another. Lolly slipped from her bed and down the steps toward the glow of the Christmas tree. Her heart bounced. She was going to see Santa Claus! “Daddy?” Her father quickly turned from the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories Christmas, fathers, Linda Chandanais

ROADKILL BILL • by Jennifer Lai

June 21, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Shotgun in hand, I inch toward the contorted deer. Behind me, breath reeking of whiskey, Pa hisses, “It’s suffering, boy. Put it out of its misery.” I rest my cheek against the stock and aim the barrel at the buck,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories fathers, hunting, Jennifer Lai, revenge, suffering

THE DISAPPEARING MAN • by Jeremy A. Wall

May 12, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I was six years old the first time I saw a man disappear. My parents were arguing in the kitchen that morning. I pretended not to hear it. A little later my father came into my room wearing a suit.… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories ceremonies, fathers, Jeremy A. Wall, sacrifice

A LONELY SPACE • by Heather Rose

March 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I’ll always remember the way his car smelled, like stale Pall Malls and Vicks VapoRub. It was memories of court-ordered, every-other-weekend visits, chicken fingers and ice cream for dinner from the Dairy Queen, and peanut butter cups baked into the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cars, death of a parent, divorce, fathers, Heather Rose, memories

ELLA • by S.E. Gilbey

February 28, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Ella was a loud and opinionated child — but also careful and caring and never cruel. “You’re such a difficult girl,” her mother would wail. “Why can’t you be more like your sisters? They do as they’re told.” But while… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories fathers, mothers, royalty, S.E. Gilbey, teachers

BREAKING BALL • by Michael Snyder

January 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There’s this ball, pink-seamed and spinning fast, its coordinates locked on the northern perimeter of my left eye socket. All the proof I need that God hates me. No surprise, as my earthly father was never that fond of me… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories baseball, death, fathers, grief, siblings, sports

PINNED UP • by Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

December 16, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The man did not speak. He beckoned me to follow him with a hand sheathed in a greasy, surgical glove. I had never seen an auto mechanic wearing latex gloves so I asked him, “Is that the thing, nowadays?” I… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cars, Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, fathers, mechanics

MEMORIES OF ARCHIE • by Martin Hadfield

December 14, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On the hundredth anniversary of the end of the war, the local newspaper read “Statue Unveiled of Local War Hero Archie Sutherland”. At the unveiling ceremony a draped cloth was lowered to reveal a tall, handsome soldier standing tall atop… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories fathers, Martin Hadfield, statues, war, World War I

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