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THE PASSING OF THE BOOK • by Gerald Warfield

July 29, 2016Every Day Fiction 32 Comments

Jason, a bronze sickle in one hand, glimpsed movement at the edge of the woods and straightened to peer above the golden stalks of barley.  At the far end of the field, Dame Stilwell, his teacher, had emerged from the… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories Gerald Warfield, gifts, magic, teachers

STRANGE FRUIT • by Laura Alexandra Hunter

January 15, 2016Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

“You eat?” Carmel’s landlady was standing on her doorstep with two pieces of fruit unlike any she had ever seen before. “What is it?” Carmel asked speaking slowly and clearly. “You eat?” Evie repeated with a smile. “Yes.” Carmel took… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories gardening, gifts, Laura Alexandra Hunter

IN THE CHOCOLATE SALOON • by Jan Alexander

April 1, 2015Every Day Fiction 32 Comments

Le Saloon de Chocolate. It’s a little shop in the empty-calorie heartland suburb where I grew up. Clearly the owners never learned proper French, though they have a space in the upscale mall, the one with more pretensions than the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories academia, gifts, Jan Alexander

FILLIES AND FELLAS • by Sean Jones

December 9, 2014Every Day Fiction 82 Comments

The dilemma — I knew even as a nine-year-old boy to be a “good problem” — was I’d unwrapped a blue plastic horse from Mrs. Golding during the fourth-grade classroom Christmas party and all the girls wanted horses, as girls… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories fourth grade, gifts, holiday parties, school, Sean Jones

WITH YOU ALWAYS • by Patrick Lind

February 21, 2014Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

He smiled as he finished wrapping the gift. It hadn’t been as hard as he feared. Satisfied, he brought out his pen and wrote. *** Amanda received the first latticework animal the morning before her sixth birthday. It was sitting… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories family, gifts, love, Patrick Lind

THE GLASS PRINCESS • by L. M. Myles

September 5, 2012Every Day Fiction 8 Comments

The Princess descended from her carriage wearing only a cloak embellished with the royal sigil, uncaring of her nakedness beneath it. Few in the town square were shocked; below her neck the Princess’s body was made entirely of glass and… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories gifts, L. M. Myles, royalty

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