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A BLOCK OF ICE AND A ROLL OF THE DICE • by Jen Schneider

June 27, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The radio coughed and sputtered. Perhaps, muttered. So many rhyming sounds in the language. The vehicle, perhaps an automobility, exhaled too. I prayed it wouldn’t expire. I needed it for two more hours. Without tunes my creative juices evaporate. It’s… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories aliens, competition, Jen Schneider, language

JULIE AND THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER • by Robert Runté

October 13, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Ms. Marken, the substitute teacher, was doing a math demonstration. Julie had finished the entire math unit two days before, so that was boring. Instead, Julie had taken out her Kindle and was ignoring the sub in the spirit of… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories dyslexia, language, mathematics, Robert Runté, school, teachers

THE ENGLISH-ONLY RULE • by Ted Lietz

July 14, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Hania grew up in a southwest Detroit neighborhood where most people understood English well enough to follow radio broadcasts of Joe Louis fights and fireside chats. But they were far more comfortable conversing in Polish. It was the language of… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories family, language, perinatal loss, pregnancy, Ted Lietz, World War II

THE COLLECTOR • by Nyki Blatchley

August 12, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Inside the poem was safe and quiet, but the word knew its time was limited. Even here, amid the heady chaos of surrealism tinged with psychedelia, staying still for too long could be fatal. Peering out from between two random… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories language, Nyki Blatchley

A RIVER LAMENTATION • by Kai Hudson

October 25, 2017Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

The bridge to my mother erodes in word-shaped chunks: broken sentences and hesitant pauses. Frustration traces the downward curve of Ma-Ma’s mouth, a bow with no arrows left to fire. “Na ge,” she says. Brittle fingers tug at her hair,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Kai Hudson, language, memory loss, mothers

A BAD IDEA • by Brenna Lemieux

September 20, 2017Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

Twenty-five years of marriage, and Freddie had never once told Ellen she’d had a good idea. “Not a bad idea,” he’d say, if she suggested two-for-one night at the Taco Palace, or “This isn’t bad at all,” when she served… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Brenna Lemieux, language, marriage

TEHUELCHE • by Gustavo Bondoni

June 10, 2010Every Day Fiction 23 Comments

“What’s wrong with her?” “We don’t know.” Dr. Alejandro Benetti shook his head in frustration.  Every time an economic opportunity convinced him to leave the capital, it was the same story.  Small-town nurses were always extremely willing and helpful, but… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories doctors, elder care, Gustavo Bondoni, language, nurses, Patagonia

THE WISDOM OF ALCUIN • by Oonah V Joslin

April 21, 2008Every Day Fiction 28 Comments

Prof. Bouillon opened the box with utmost care. The jar nestling in purpose-made packaging was unique. That it had been discovered by a caver who was a friend of the leading archaeologist had been the merest coincidence and the greatest… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories language, Oonah V Joslin
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