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A BEAUTIFUL LIFE • by Patricia O’Donnell

May 4, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The bell rings when a person enters the store, the sound light and musical. Like sunlight, it cuts through the shadows in the open room to the desk at the back. Nils has a small lamp lit on his desk… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, memories, pandemic, Patricia O'Donnell, pregnancy

WANDERER • by Russell Heidorn

November 28, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Natalia’s wrinkled, spotty hands fluttered over the piano keys like a butterfly dancing on the breeze. Elegant, beautiful, serene, the sound of the aging instrument felt like a long lost friend. Her favorite was The Seasons by Tchaikovsky. Each movement… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, music, musicians, Russell Heidorn

PARCHED RIVER, 1980 • by Justin Cox

January 28, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I’ve never shot a gun, and suddenly, Quinton is pressing the grip of a long-nosed revolver into my palm. I don’t anticipate its weight. The chilly steel. We’re cousins, but I’m new to life in Parched River. I’m used to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, farm life, financial hardship, Justin Cox

SHOVELBUM • by MacKenzie Tastan

September 30, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Paul looked down at the screen in his hands and sighed. It was the last day of September and he could see the looming winter months of unemployment as clearly as he could see the storm gathering overhead. One bolt… Continue Reading →

Literary, Mystery / Suspense, Stories archaeology, financial hardship, MacKenzie Tastan, temptation

LOSING TOUCH • by Daniel Paton

September 26, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Bill sat on a bench by the village green. He figured it was a Sunday as the little shop was to be closed all day. He read an old newspaper he’d found until he got so hungry that he couldn’t… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories Daniel Paton, financial hardship, homelessness

LOBSTER DINNER • by Heather Wilson

August 3, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

That summer I was sixteen. I had a job at a dog groomer’s. I cleaned clumps of hair out of shower drains. I brushed down show dogs. I clipped long, crescent shaped toenails, trying my hardest not to cut the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, grocery stores, Heather Wilson, lobsters

LA FLACA • by Nicole E. Mestre

June 4, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Yuly and I trekked down to El Malecon to find Don Manuel. The old man spent his days riding his antique three-wheel bicycle up and down the sidewalk adjacent to Havana’s seawall to hawk the used goods his daughter —… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Cuba, financial hardship, Florida, Nicole E. Mestre

NOTHING FOR CHRISTMAS • by Templeton Moss

December 2, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Matthew and John met under the Fourth Street bridge as they often did. But this was no ordinary meeting. Tonight was a special occasion. Each man carried a cardboard box under his arm which had been wrapped up in great… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories Christmas, financial hardship, friendship, gifts, homelessness, Templeton Moss

KIND OF POOR • by Marc Elias Keller

May 14, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

There’s nothing wrong with Snug Harbor. It’s a classy, dignified, and orderly place. The shows start and end right on time. But of all the jazz spots on Frenchmen Street, it’s my least favorite. It’s just a little too orderly.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, Marc Elias Keller, musicians

WELCOME TO BATTERSEA • by Ioan Marc Jones

May 8, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

Glad I left the Rose and Crown. Gets rowdy after midnight. Only art in that place was on forearms, only religion was on fingers. Everyone dressed the same. Skint. But still 40-quid Fred Perry double-tips, buttoned-up, pinching against 20-quid Harringtons.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcohol, financial hardship, Ioan Marc Jones, London

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