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HAMMER TIME • by Jan Allen

January 2, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

For three years I’ve been thinking about divorcing my husband. Google tells me there are trillions of nerves in my body, and Barry has gotten under every last one. The scary thing is I’ve never lived alone, not once in… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories bad food, cancer, doctors, flirting, Jan Allen, marriage

THE STORY YOU TELL STRANGERS • by Mandy Nadyne Clark

September 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The room is dimly lit. The woman who just impressed you by gulping her Budweiser in one of those craft-brew bars is now asking if you have children. Before this, she’d liked the way you won the game of pool… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories aging, bars, beer, flirting, infidelity, Mandy Nadyne Clark

THE LUCIAN’S REAL • by Michelle Christophorou

September 28, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Part way through Act 2 Scene 1, the man next to her says, “Are you a thief? Because you’ve stolen my heart.” “Really?” she replies. “Is that the best you can do?” “I meant it in a post-ironic, hipster kind… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories flirting, Michelle Christophorou

ISAAC NEWTON FAILED TO ACCOUNT FOR LOVE • by Anatoly Belilovsky

September 2, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On a cold, snowy day in January, as an old song played on the radio, Joe, whose birthday was in September, had more trouble than usual getting ready for school. “Eat your breakfast, son,” his father said. “Today is, what,… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Inspirational, Romance, Science Fiction, Stories Anatoly Belilovsky, flirting, high school, LGBTQ

THE FISH • by Susan Bonetto

March 25, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

The fisherman is the boyfriend of one of my closest friends. Miguel has been trawling his lines for some time, waiting patiently for the fish to take his bait.  It began as a tranquil journey, no lines put out, just… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories flirting, infidelity, Susan Bonetto

CATCH OF THE DAY • by David Daniel

September 4, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Three young men were sitting a few seats away from me at the counter, sun-browned and neatly scrubbed in civvies. Newly assigned at the Coast Guard station out on the point. They weren’t difficult to spot. I could pick up… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories David Daniel, flirting, food servers

LOVE AND THE ART OF TELEGRAPHY • by Christopher Owen

April 19, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I just turned fifty: the same age as my estranged father when he died. Such a thing gets a man to pondering the details of his life. Such thoughts made me get busy, first by cleaning up my dingy old… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories aging, Christopher Owen, flirting, neighbours

CAMPAIGN BUTTON • by Joyce Barton

September 8, 2015Every Day Fiction 64 Comments

In class today, two guest speakers, a Republican and a Democrat, contradict each other for the whole period and leave us with a pile of campaign buttons. I take the President Nixon. Now more than ever. button because it looks… Continue Reading →

Stories elections, flirting, Joyce Barton

MAGIC 8-BALL • by Rollin T. Gentry

April 28, 2015Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

“David Jones, Software Engineer,” read the placard outside his cubical. He’d only been away for five minutes: a bathroom break and a quick trip by the vending machines. Sipping his Diet StimRev, Dave realized immediately that something was wrong. His… Continue Reading →

Romance, Science Fiction, Stories flirting, Magic 8-Ball, office life, Rollin T. Gentry, toys

TEDDY • by Ben Warden

June 18, 2014Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

He appeared just seconds after it happened. The knot of anxiety still held in my throat and all I wanted to do was turn back to them and scream, “Wankers!” I pulled my coat tighter and felt stupid, like I’d… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories Ben Warden, flirting, luck

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