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ROCKING THE CRADLE • by Swetha Amit

May 7, 2024Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I am not sure how long I have been dead. Perhaps a month. A year. Or maybe even a few days. I can’t tell. My brain has been fuzzy lately. However, I do recognize my home. I am in my… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories hallucinations, perinatal loss, Swetha Amit

LEILA • by Meagan Chandler

October 3, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

When Nurse asks if I want an epidural, I nod my head. Why hurt any more than I have to? I’ve dreaded this part for months. Those nights I laid awake with little feet striking my ribcage and wondering if… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories hospitals, marriage, Meagan Chandler, nurses, perinatal loss

NO ONE IS EVER SAFE • by Keith Proctor

August 10, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

When Gray didn’t work the night shift, he took over bedtime duty from his wife, tucking in Dylan and telling him a story. Gray sometimes got carried away, veering into realms not wholly age appropriate. Tales of changelings and tricksters,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Keith Proctor, parenting, perinatal loss

JUST IN CASE • by Tamara Miller

June 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My first thought was to lie, and spent a few moments dreaming up common household emergencies like an overflowing washing machine or a broken refrigerator. But Marla was one of those sympathetic-but-also-kind-of-nosy bosses and usually would look the other way… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories menstruation, parenting, perinatal loss, pre-teens, pregnancy, Tamara Miller

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

OUR LIFE IN INK AND SKIN • by Jake TS Wryte

May 27, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Samantha etched the white oak onto her hand and arm: her wrist and forearm the trunk, her fingers the branches, fingertips the leaves, and on her palm the date and our initials. She wrote our first kiss inside her upper… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories, Surreal Jake TS Wryte, magical realism, perinatal loss

CONCEPTUALIZATIONS • by Albert N. Katz

May 12, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Since the most recent late-term miscarriage, I could see Janet falling once again into depression and the twilight world she entered when under stress and uncertainty. And she was frightened, clearly frightened, about what she would learn at the forthcoming… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Albert N. Katz, artificial intelligence, perinatal loss

WATER’S EDGE • by Sarah Hilary

December 10, 2009Every Day Fiction 42 Comments

It’s gritty at the shore, gets between the toes. The lake waits, the skin of it blistering under a low-slung sun that makes mirrors of flat pebbles, the fastenings on bikinis, metal bottle tops. You think you see the sun’s… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories beaches, perinatal loss, Sarah Hilary

CATHERINE • by Joseph Riippi

December 4, 2007Every Day Fiction 20 Comments

The playwright Martin Simon is sitting outside an Indian restaurant with a laptop and beer when James, the director, walks up. Martin continues typing — he’s on a roll, finally making sense of the scene he’s been struggling with all… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Joseph Riippi, perinatal loss, theatres
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