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LARRY • by Justin Cox

January 5, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My older cousin Larry and I sit on the hood of his rust-bitten Caddy, overlooking The Park. We eat greasy burgers as the summer sun slowly melts into the horizon. One day closer to another school year. Everyone in the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories basketball, death of a parent, family, grief, Justin Cox

BRINGING THE CHILDREN HOME • by Amethyst Loscocco

May 7, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

This morning I scrubbed the apartment more thoroughly than was necessary considering I’d declined all visitors, both the well- and ill-wishing kind. I ignored the phone. The battery will be dead in a few hours and I’m considering letting it… Continue Reading →

Literary, Mystery / Suspense, Stories, Surreal Amethyst Loscocco, ghosts, grief

THE HEALING TREE • by Nate Ellis

April 26, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The autumn’s morning fog has thinned to steam by the time Roland Adder’s rusted-out-red pick-up reaches the grove’s edge, dilapidated horse trailer in tow. Beneath swaying skeleton-finger branches, maple and oak leaves crackle under his bowlegged gait as he plods… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal death of a spouse, grief, Nate Ellis

THE MEETING PLACE • by Kristin Beaven

August 15, 2017Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

Why isn’t he here yet? Amber wondered as she stood in their meeting place. She could feel a soft breeze gliding through the stalks of corn, lightly touching her face, and gently lifting the brown fedora that she wore. Amber’s… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal grief, Kristin Beaven

BROKEN HANDS • by Alyssa Jordan

May 25, 2017Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

The seven of us stood there with a dumbstruck look on each of our faces. As we watched, sticky with sweat and tacky popsicle juice, the dust cleared enough to reveal a shoddy white sign that read: “WELCOME TO HOG… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Alyssa Jordan, gardening, grief, pigs

THE LUMINOUS VEIL • by Joe P. Squance

February 7, 2017Every Day Fiction 8 Comments

You are a version of a person that you cannot remember, a translation of a translation of a translation. You are staring at an email instead of reading it, but it doesn’t matter because you already know what it says.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories dreams, grief, Joe P. Squance, online dating, suicide

THE PASSING OF GRANDMOTHER’S QUILT • by Cat Rambo

January 9, 2013Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

A few weeks after my grandmother’s death, her quilt began crawling from her bed in the early hours and roaming downstairs. You’d hear the rustle as it went past the door, and in the morning find it curled somewhere, like… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Cat Rambo, grandparents, grief

ME AND THE MOUSER • by Sarah Hilary

November 18, 2008Every Day Fiction 39 Comments

The cat is squalling again, the thin sound just human enough to trigger my maternal alarm. I’m halfway out of bed before I remember there’s no crying child in the next room; no one here but me and the mouser.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cats, grief, infant death, Sarah Hilary

THE BEACH COTTAGE • by Angela Carlton

May 7, 2008Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

I am washing my hands at the beach cottage, when the phone rings. My friend Tess and I have come here to escape. We’ve come to cope with the issue neither of us plan to discuss. Right away, I know… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Angela Carlton, cancer, death, friendship, grief
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