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LIMITS • by Harrison Kim

August 13, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Others decide things for me, because whatever I decide turns out wrong. It’s all about knowing limits, and I can’t stop at the edges. I associate mainly with other sullied, stigmatized transgressors. I spent two years at the Forensic Psychiatric… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Mystery / Suspense, Stories Harrison Kim, mental health, psychiatric institutions

THE OTHER • by Shelley K. Davenport

October 25, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Carina, darling, Someday you will want to know why. People will ask you: What was I like? Was I weird? Forgetting that you were only three and cannot be expected to remember your father. I cannot write to you because… Continue Reading →

Mystery / Suspense, Stories child abuse, fathers, psychiatric institutions, revenge, Shelley K. Davenport

A NICE CUP OF TEA • by Jane S Conroy

October 10, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

(London, Highgate psychiatric ward, 1995.) Rosa chokes on a wall of smoke as she enters the TV room. Through the jaundiced haze she makes out 8 or 9 men in plastic chairs, staring fixedly at a screen. Persil Automatic gets… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Jane S Conroy, psychiatric institutions, World Mental Health Day

WHO AM I KIDDING? • by Christina Klarenbeek

December 11, 2016Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

I’m seeing things again. Head in my hands my fingers weave through tangled hair pushing it back from my face like the headbands I wore as a little girl, when I only pretended I saw things. I’m not pretending now.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories Christina Klarenbeek, faeries, psychiatric institutions

THE MAN NAMED RAY • by Angela Carlton

May 16, 2009Every Day Fiction 39 Comments

When the phone rings, I reach for the Advil in the bathroom. I know it’s my mother. Sucking in my breath, I close my eyes before I answer it. “Have you written your novel yet?” she asks, with the enthusiasm… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Angela Carlton, mothers, psychiatric institutions
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