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PLAYTIME • by Rachel Allen

May 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I swish the curtains open, and the sunlight nearly blinds me. Typical — on the day it matters, it pours with rain, but on the day after it matters, it’s bright and sunny. Just my luck. I shuffle towards the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories motherhood, parenting, Rachel Allen

MURMURATIONS • by Andrea Rinard

June 2, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Mom’s ashes are in the urn on the table, and I smile with my lips at people who hold pieces of her. I am greedy for every fragment, but hugs are extortion. “She never got to be a grandmother,” one… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories adoption, Andrea Rinard, infertility, motherhood, mothers

GLUTEN GIRL • by Nicholas A. White

February 26, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

For years Teresa ate pasta twice a week, on Tuesdays and Sundays, and it had become, she believed, a necessary part of life. She found refuge in a warm bowl of bucatini or farfalle, even after the most hectic days… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cancer, food, motherhood, Nicholas A. White, parenting, superheroes

WINTER INTO SPRING • by Sarah Crysl Akhtar

December 24, 2014Every Day Fiction 41 Comments

In that last hard winter of the war, the farmhouse looked almost like a cabin for the enjoyments of the season. Those gorgeous drifts of snow would have burned your toes to stumps, if you had no boots. No one… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Christmas, Hanukkah, motherhood, Poland, Sarah Crysl Akhtar, war
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