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BIRDS • by Wendy Toth Notarnicola

September 25, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The kid across the courtyard was driving me mad. He kept playing the same annoying ragtime song over and over every day since quarantine began. I’d tried ignoring it, but it didn’t work — I couldn’t even hear myself think… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories music, quarantine, Wendy Toth Notarnicola

FAUX VINYL • by Neal Reynolds

January 20, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The sports car came to a stop in front of my house, tires screeching. Joel angrily leapt out and dashed across the grass toward the front door where I stood. “Come on in,” I called out confidently. “My parents aren’t… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories high school, music, Neal Reynolds

CLOCKWORK SYMPHONY • by Jack Curran

August 24, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Silas was the son of a watchmaker, but although he dutifully followed his father’s craft, he dreamed of becoming a musician instead. By day he toiled in the workshop, greasing gears, replacing springs and calibrating the minute mechanisms of the… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories clockwork, following dreams, inventors, Jack Curran, music, steampunk

THERE ALL THE TIME • by Stuart Larner

April 5, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

“Anton, listen to me. You won’t get anywhere like this.” Herr Hoffmann looked over my shoulder at the notes I was composing and sighed. “The salons of von Genzinger want something new. Your five-finger piano exercises use tunes from twenty… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Mozart, music, Stuart Larner

OUR LAST RADIO DAYS • by Gal-on Broner

February 3, 2017Every Day Fiction 23 Comments

It was a Bush that my grandfather received as a present back in 1958. It was housed in an expensive wooden cabinet with dials for volume, treble and bass, piano keys to switch between the bands, and a needle moving… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories friendship, Gal-on Broner, music, radio, technology, The Day the Music Died

CURRENTLY • by Jeff Schwartz

January 15, 2017Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

“Autumn Sweater” plays. And there we are, sitting, existing, in this space whose size we cannot know. And it’s a cliché, but clichés sprout from truth, and that’s a heavy truth that just sits there unless you do something with… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Jeff Schwartz, music, writers

FESTIVAL MUSIC IN A CIRCLE OF CARAVANS • by Owen Rapine

December 27, 2016Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

Through the hazy watercolor of a child’s memory, those months stand out with clarity even into my ninth decade. They start with the bombs dropping in the village streets. Even a child couldn’t mistake the bone-shaking howl, the blinding flashes… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories music, Owen Rapine, refugees, war

BARBARA’S GIFT • by Z. L. Porter

December 6, 2016Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

After a week, a small band of followers started to gather at the bottom of the hill each morning to listen to Barbara’s magnificent voice. She took to wearing a bird-like mask to preserve her anonymity. When these supplicants asked… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories music, singers, Z. L. Porter

GREY HEART • by Dan Keeble

October 13, 2016Every Day Fiction 27 Comments

I admit to looking down on them. Old men, stooping, dragging their miserable bodies and depressing outlooks into the paths of those still drinking life. The embers of their fading passion spent on letters to local papers complaining about technological… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories aging, Dan Keeble, music

THE CHOCOLATE SONG • by Helen de Búrca

August 19, 2016Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

The crunchy lettuce in her sandwich resounds in her head as she chews, so it’s not until she swallows that Maggie hears the song threading its way through the fug of damp clothes and coffee steam. The melancholic voice conjures… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Helen de Búrca, memories, music, siblings, weddings

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