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RAIN GIRL • by Philip Howarth

December 11, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I was driving through the city in a furious, gully-washing storm. It was 2 AM. Someone was waving me down. What the hell? It was a teenage girl, sitting in a wheelchair. Rain was practically dancing off the sidewalk. I… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories beaches, merpeople, Philip Howarth, taxis, wheelchairs

THE LAST LITTLE LUCKIAMUTE RIVER MERMAID • by Jonathan Ellingson

April 27, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Our brief interview involved more cannibalism than I would have guessed. At the river with my kids, on the last day of summer, and my son is picking up rocks along the shore finding snakes and wolf spiders hauling egg… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Jonathan Ellingson, merpeople, parenting, rivers

LITTLE FISH • by Scott James

September 3, 2014Every Day Fiction 40 Comments

My mother thinks I am dead. Her toes sift the same sand each year, a barren starfish somehow surviving the picking predations of children, and constant push and pull of the tide. She tucks her knees beneath her chin and… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories jellyfish, merpeople, Scott James
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