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FOGGY DAYS • by Austin Gray

November 15, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Your great-grandson Justin is coming over. You pull out the secret candy stash, hidden from your daughter who worries after your diabetes. Your hands creak and crack as you shuffle cards onto the spotless oak table Jack bought you. The… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories aging, Austin Gray, books, grandchildren, memory loss

MEMORY LOSS • by Sara Lynn Burnett

July 27, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

During my previous visit to Houston’s Neurosurgery Center the doctor said the procedure would triple my life expectancy, but I’d forget most things. “Sepia tones,” she said when I asked what memories would look like. “Photographs bleeding color until they’re… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories brain surgery, memory erasure, memory loss, Sara Lynn Burnett

DEADHEADING THE ROSES • by Chris Dreyfus

March 25, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Louise arrived late for her second homecare client of the day. At fifty-nine, she might be on the cusp of elderly herself. The beginning of spring marked her fifth year of employment with in-home care. She hadn’t missed teaching art… Continue Reading →

Stories Chris Dreyfus, elder care, memory loss, puzzles

BOX • by Keev Kennedy

May 13, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Grandpa, tell us the story!” Myles demanded. “Yeah! The story!” Emma added. Charlie Grafton sat with his grandkids in his empty second-storey bedroom. He eyed the younglings through thick glasses. “What story?” From the base of the ladder out in… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories aging, grandchildren, Keev Kennedy, memory loss

INNOCENT • by C. L. Killgore

March 16, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Innocent? Ha! If actions speak louder than words, she was loud and proud. Finally! Her children teased her about being a pushover, but not this time. This time she’d gotten it right. She was sure of it. Well, she’d been… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories aging, C. L. Killgore, memory loss, police

SIN PALABRAS • by Mike Pemberton

December 10, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Isabella rises at first light, as always. Fifty years in the same house. Seventy years with the same man, now passed. Nine children. Four boys, four girls, living. One boy dead. Drowned. Or was it a fire? “Aye,” she whispers,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories aging, death of a child, family, memory loss, Mike Pemberton, Thanksgiving

THE PASSING OF DAYS • by John Mullen

August 12, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Juanita eases the old woman into the rocker, its tiny nails tightly securing the branches and twigs that form its construction. The slats of the chairback shape the old woman’s spine, sitting her as straight as she’d been, so many… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories elder care, John Mullen, memories, memory loss, parenting

“IS THIS THE TRAIN TO CANARSIE?” • by David Ghitelman

January 8, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Before Norman went to college, he’d never been out of the Bronx, and even during his undergraduate years he rarely ventured south of the City College campus. It was an uncle, his mother’s older brother, who found him the lead. … Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories David Ghitelman, elder care, memory loss

THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME • by George Allan Bradley

August 6, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Arthur Norris went back to the shed to fetch gasoline for the mower. In the twilight the straight tracks of newly shaved grass looked like different shades of ribbons spilled from the spool. “Arthur!” he heard her calling. She was… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories aging, George Allan Bradley, Mars, memory loss, parenting, space colonization

DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY • by Benjamin Friedman

December 12, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

For their 60th “diamond” anniversary, Martine booked an old-fashioned gondola ride down Broadway, starting Uptown. Doctor Alcuna had warned her not to get her hopes too high for the occasion, that the Memantine™ and Donepezil™ still showed no sign of… Continue Reading →

Romance, Science Fiction, Stories Benjamin A. Friedman, climate change, flooding, memory loss, wedding anniversaries

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