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A RANDOM KIND OF MUSIC • by Oonah V Joslin

April 25, 2014Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

Alb and I always call in for a pint after work on a Friday, our ritual to celebrate another week’s work. I mean nobody likes a dead end job in insurance sales but times are hard and money’s tight. I… Continue Reading →

Mystery / Suspense, Stories homelessness, infidelity, memory loss, Oonah V Joslin

A LONELY JEW AT CHRISTMAS • by Isabella David

December 5, 2013Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

More than even gifts, Abby Crosby loved wrapped-up boxes. Loved the anticipation. It was the same with Christmas Day. Having grown up in a large city, she enjoyed the small-town feeling in the air on the days leading up to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories being Jewish, breaking up, Christmas, homelessness, Isabella David, knitting

IN MEMORY OF DOUGIE • by K.C. Ball

March 16, 2012Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

His parents named him David, but his friends on the streets of Key West called him Dougie. He was fifty-five years old but if you didn’t know that you might guess his age at seventy. He was a familiar sight… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcoholism, homelessness, K.C. Ball, prison

WHO KNEW MORE THAN KAREN CARPENTER ABOUT A BROKEN HEART? • by Digby Beaumont

December 24, 2010Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

Christmas Eve. I’m in my car, trying to sleep, when the sound of Karen Carpenter singing makes me sit up. I unzip my sleeping bag, wipe condensation from the windscreen and there she is, standing under a streetlight, not thirty… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Christmas Eve, Digby Beaumont, homelessness, Karen Carpenter, The Carpenters

THE VIEW FROM OLYMPUS • by Sarah Hilary

January 1, 2009Every Day Fiction 57 Comments

When they decided old Nye was no longer capable of living alone, they offered him a ‘nice room in a lovely home’. He chose a park bench at the top of Primrose Hill. Not long after that, he met up… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories aging, Aphrodite, Dionysus, homelessness, Mount Olympus, Sarah Hilary

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