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A BEAUTIFUL LIFE • by Patricia O’Donnell

May 4, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The bell rings when a person enters the store, the sound light and musical. Like sunlight, it cuts through the shadows in the open room to the desk at the back. Nils has a small lamp lit on his desk… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories financial hardship, memories, pandemic, Patricia O'Donnell, pregnancy

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

BOSSY BOSS • by Jan Allen

March 8, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Every day my head nurse, Mindy, was mean to me. She always gave me the hardest assignments — the patient who yelled “help me” constantly, or the one with explosive diarrhea. Every night, I cried myself to sleep as my… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories hospitals, Jan Allen, nurses, pregnancy

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

LEMONS • by Tim Boiteau

July 13, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Epiphany: I need lemons. A tumble of lemons, a volcano of fresh explosive citrus, the obese mamas with that extraterrestrial shine, not those dinky rough-hide goblins lurking at the bottom of produce boxes. Fifty will do, I think. No, seventy;… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories, Surreal food, pregnancy, Tim Boiteau

WILD CHILD • by Shera Hill

June 29, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My daughter’s red hair lights up the room, this wild child, this toddler Pippi Longstocking.   Her father had red hair. I met him in a mad, bad, crazy time in my life when I broke up with Tim, my eight-year-long… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories pregnancy, Shera Hill

LUNAR SEAS • by Myra King

September 7, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Alkina opens wide one eye against the cold steel of her late husband’s telescope and remembers on a clear night, less than three months ago, Mare Fecunditatis, appearing so close she would have sworn water lay there. That morning he’d… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Australia, death of a spouse, domestic violence, magical realism, Myra King, pregnancy

THE WEIGHT OF EXPECTANCY • by Stephanie King

April 10, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Pipes banged and hissed as I heard the last of my heat fading away. The wood furnace was losing pressure fast and I knew soon there would not be enough water in the pipes to circulate heat, plunging the house… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories power outage, pregnancy, prison, Stephanie King, winter

ANOTHER DAY AT THE JOB • by Wayne Scheer

January 28, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

As I was preparing for class, Lois Blaylock, a fellow member of the English department, burst into my office looking like she had just caught the dean in a compromising position with a chicken. She had been my mentor through… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories academia, LGBTQ, pregnancy, Wayne Scheer

AN ARSENAL OF NAMES • by Deanna Krikorian

June 22, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The sound of his chewing made her palms sweat. It echoed in her brain. It filled every empty chair around the table, every empty room in their house. He wanted to make her wait, to intimidate her, to show her… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Deanna Krikorian, fathers, pregnancy

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