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RED-EYED REINDEER • by Beth-Marie Miller-Bicknell

December 24, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The year Will and I played our best light prank ever was also the year we got caught. We’d been doing it since we were ten: switching out strings of Christmas lights for different colors, changing the positions of yard… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories Beth-Marie Miller-Bicknell, Christmas, practical jokes, reindeer

MICHALINA • by David Clayton

November 7, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Now for the eyes. They are last and most important. I make portraits, not from life but from my mind, remembrances, faces seen in passing which I bring to the canvas with paint. Once I add the eyes the image… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories babysitting, David Clayton, practical jokes, suicide

PERSEPHONE • by Matthew Schneider

September 26, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The plot against old Jacobson was our first deliberate undertaking since school had been let out. We were wild, but not nearly as bad or tough as we considered ourselves. We relished anything fun, dangerous, and slightly illegal. Sean’s grudge… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Matthew Schneider, practical jokes, teenagers

APRIL FOOL • by Paul A. Freeman

April 1, 2013Every Day Fiction 26 Comments

April hated her name with a vengeance, and the reason was simple. On the first day of her namesake month — the month of her birth as it so happened — she was inevitably the target of every wannabe prankster’s… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories April Fools' Day, office life, Paul A. Freeman, practical jokes, revenge

GRISLY • by Gretchen Bassier

March 10, 2011Every Day Fiction 27 Comments

There are no grizzly bears in Michigan. I used to tell myself this when I was out alone, bringing the horses in from the pasture. Sometimes, it helped. When the moon was bright, and the animals quiet, it helped. But… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories bears, fear, Gretchen Bassier, practical jokes
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