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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE HUNTER • by Joel C. Scoberg

October 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Malcolm ‘Stakeman’ Gribble didn’t look like a vampire hunter. He looks like someone who lives in their mother’s basement, thought Aneira, as she watched him eat through the roadside diner’s misted window. He had long, greasy brown hair, milk bottle… Continue Reading →

Horror, Humour / Satire, Stories food, Joel C. Scoberg, restaurants, vampire hunters, vampires

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

JUST DESSERTS • by David Desiderio

May 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

They collided on the Farmers Market at Clinton and Bailey streets in Buffalo, New York, on a sultry Saturday in August. She was forty-six, and outspoken. He was twenty-one, and given to few words. They both spotted the last basket… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories David Desiderio, farmer's markets, food, pies

SAY CHEESE • by Gerald So

April 27, 2021Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

What she liked most about Ken Krieg? He didn’t mind she was taller or a volleyball star. Eating Buddhist cuisine in Buffalo, he told her flat as their food, “I want to marry you, work on Wall Street, and live… Continue Reading →

Mystery / Suspense, Stories food, Gerald So, infidelity, leaving a marriage, pizza

KAITLYN’S CAFE: PIZZA FOR TWO • by Patrick Knight

April 5, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

A deafening cacophony escaped the kitchen as countless pots and pans crashed to the floor. Andria plugged her ears until the ringing subsided. A high-pitched “Aye aye,” squeaked from her lips. She replaced her fallen utensils and started again. Filling… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories cafés, cooking, food, Patrick Knight

GLUTEN GIRL • by Nicholas A. White

February 26, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

For years Teresa ate pasta twice a week, on Tuesdays and Sundays, and it had become, she believed, a necessary part of life. She found refuge in a warm bowl of bucatini or farfalle, even after the most hectic days… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cancer, food, motherhood, Nicholas A. White, parenting, superheroes

TVOROG • by Katherine Gleason

November 25, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The hallway smelled of cabbage, yet Suzanne remained optimistic. Despite her heavy boots, she bounded up the stairs, clutching the slip of paper Yuri had inscribed with his address. Yuri and Irina had invited her, their first American friend, home.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, food, Katherine Gleason, Russia

NOODLE LADY • by Sam Evans

October 17, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

After my promotion, the pay cheque didn’t look quite right sat in my account. The rent wasn’t going to make a dent in it, and the same figure would be arriving next month. And the month after. My head felt… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories food, food servers, Sam Evans

SLICE • by Barbara Boehm Miller

September 2, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister slices the pie, her lips drawn together in a tight purse, the disapproving grimace of a person performing an unfamiliar task. We sit at the dining room table. I look because I can’t stop myself from staring over… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Barbara Boehm Miller, death of a parent, food, pies, siblings, suicide

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