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BUTT-DIAL WHILE OUT SHOPPING • by Lynn Kozlowski

January 12, 2025Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The old man’s first call from his wife was about which exact brand of peanut butter she should be getting since they no longer carried his brand. Her second call was about 10 minutes later. His ‘Hello’ got no response.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories grocery stores, infidelity, Lynn Kozlowski, smartphones, technology

SPENT • by Ingrid Jendrzejewski

June 12, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You go to pay for your groceries, and your credit card is declined. It was bound to happen sooner or later, but you didn’t expect it to be today. You look at the letters dancing across the card reader’s display… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, grocery stores, Ingrid Jendrzejewski

TRANSPARENT EYEBALLS 10% OFF • by Allison Kelly

January 19, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I forgot to have breakfast before I left. That combined with rising, overwhelming nerves about my upcoming appointment — I had a profound fear of having my eyes poked and prodded, those hulking optometry machines full of refracting lenses, deeply… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Allison Kelly, grocery stores, invisibility

HEAVY WEATHER • by Steph Sundermann-Zinger

June 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On the day my mother died I woke to rain, a rhythmic tick-tick-ticking against the windows, the first real downpour we’d had in months. I roused Oliver, crouching beside his tiny bed and tugging at the blankets, the blunt comma… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death of a parent, grocery stores, missing child, parenting, rain, Steph Sundermann-Zinger

I’LL HAVE A CORONA, HOLD THE VIRUS • by James A. Donzella

August 23, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Working from home, Zoom meetings each afternoon, haven’t worn a pair of pants in months. Conducting all my business in a collared dress shirt and boxer shorts, from my bedroom/office. Enough to drive anyone insane. Looking for any excuse to… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories COVID, grocery stores, James A. Donzella

THE HERO OF BEAGER DOWNS • by Jonathan McLelland

June 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Fuck the ugly dog. That’s what he said as they were taking him away. Somebody shouted to him as the police were leading him away, “Hey, Joe, what do we do with the Boy?” and he just leaned back over… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories boxing, grocery stores, Jonathan McLelland, murder, small town, sports

THE NIGHT CREW • by Carl Robinette

January 8, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Sometimes I can’t sleep at night, or maybe I don’t want to. I don’t know, but sometimes when I don’t sleep I drive to the supermarket nearby which never closes. In the deep end of the night there are few… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories babies, Carl Robinette, grocery stores, night shift workers

MISSION TO MARS • by J. Bradley

September 3, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Stickers from local hardcore bands and chewed gum are all over the rocket ship outside the Winn-Dixie. “I wanna go for a ride,” my little brother says. I had to put him in a t-shirt with the least amount of… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories grocery stores, J. Bradley, siblings

LOBSTER DINNER • by Heather Wilson

August 3, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

That summer I was sixteen. I had a job at a dog groomer’s. I cleaned clumps of hair out of shower drains. I brushed down show dogs. I clipped long, crescent shaped toenails, trying my hardest not to cut the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, grocery stores, Heather Wilson, lobsters

TODAY I DROPPED A PUNNET OF BLUEBERRIES • by Elaine Mead

September 30, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It was supposed to be a quick in-and-out job. I only needed some fruit. Nothing fancy. Some bananas, some apples. Maybe grapes if they were on offer. A simple trip. Until I saw the blueberries. The ripe, purple-blue, bubbles gleamed… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories Elaine Mead, grocery stores

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