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ART SCHOOL, 1982 • by Sophia Holme

May 14, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

That Winter, to me, will always be Clare in a bright red cape, puffing on a snowy street. Moving in in January, I dropped a box of my parents’ old crockery down the stairs, and never replaced it. It was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories artists, housemates, missing persons, Sophia Holme

LEST WE FORGET • by Victoria Pougatch

November 12, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

for Gael Queuing… a particularly British habit. So orderly. So polite. So not Hilary. Hilary wasn’t one to queue. Not if she could avoid it. She put it down to being half-Austrian. She had neither the time nor the inclination.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories COVID-19, England, housemates, Remembrance Day, small town, Victoria Pougatch

BACK PAYMENTS • by J.R. Gaskin

July 28, 2021Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

The shadow of the man standing over me disturbs my sleep. A small weight dropping on my chest wakes me. I look at a plastic shopping bag and then at Frank, scratching his hedge of a brown beard at me… Continue Reading →

Literary, Mystery / Suspense, Stories drug dealers, housemates, J.R. Gaskin, police, violent crime

COMBUSTIBLES • by L.E. Duchin

December 4, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

It’s a clean, warm morning in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The air is cool and fragrant, smelling of flowers and bread baking. After the clouds float off, the day will grow hot. But a breeze blows gently through the palms that wave… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories housemates, L.E. Duchin, Mexico

HOUSE RULES • by Ralph Uttaro

April 8, 2011Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

Most of the guys had already gone home for winter break. It was just me and Dewey and Manascalco in front of a crackling fire with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red. A storm swirled outside, snow piling up like… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories college / university students, housemates, Ralph Uttaro

DIRTY LAUNDRY • by Andrew LeBlanc

October 1, 2007Every Day Fiction 24 Comments

“You are boring my balls off.” Toby was wearing only boxer shorts. “You know how Jesus Christ came to the earth to heal the sick and deliver man from damnation, and the Antichrist will come to bring illness to the… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories Andrew LeBlanc, housemates, laundry
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