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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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