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THE SESSION • by Maggie Nerz Iribarne

April 5, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I knew about her in advance of course; the Hutchings Center had called before they released her to me for subsequent therapy. “Hyper-religiosity. No longer violent, but needs to talk more, and to a woman, I think,” the psychiatric nurse… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories faith, Maggie Nerz Iribarne, nuns, psychotherapy, Virgin Mary

TIME UNNOTICED • by Shera L. Hill

July 31, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Elias never forgot the day. His mother sewed by the fire. His father oiled a saddle. He told the therapist, “I was twelve. I’d been ill. Measles. The fever shifted something. I remember all at once feeling my mother’s presence… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories immortality, psychotherapy, Shera Hill, time manipulation

UPWARDS OF ONE • by Tessa Beebe

September 17, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Anna drummed her fingers along the flour-covered counter and glanced at the old clock that hung on her wall. “Set a timer for 6:10,” she said. Timer set. How are you feeling today, Anna? “Just peachy,” she mumbled. That’s great!… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Science Fiction, Stories anxiety, parties, psychotherapy, technology, Tessa Beebe

AN ACT IN THREE BREATHS • by Andrew Punzo

September 14, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

A deep breath. “I know why you keep me around. It’s so you have someone to hate. Because if you didn’t have me, you’d start hating yourself. You already do. You loathe who you are. You’ve been so busy building… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Andrew Punzo, psychotherapy

LIZARD BRAIN • by Brandon Arvesen

January 26, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I watch these parents and their wild children while I clean up the trash and empty the bins. Not a job I enjoy, but Dr. Sanders says work and routines are important. Clyde Peeling’s Reptile Land is a place for… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Brandon Arveen, psychotherapy, snakes

ADVENTURES IN AGORAPHOBIA • by Deb Jannerson

January 11, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I repainted each detail for Milo, that first evening. I described the rock growing in my throat, the sudden sense that the supermarket was dangerously big. I described rushing back to the Honda with a jellied barrier between the biting… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories agoraphobia, Deb Jannerson, fear, psychotherapy, rape

BLACKBERRY PIE • by Adi Bracken

August 30, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Mom always told me my blackberry pie tasted like hers. We’d both be bent at the waist, shoulders hunched, sturdily pushing rolling pins through flour-coated dough in the tiny kitchen. Heat would pool at the back of my neck and… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Adi Bracken, food, mothers, pies, psychotherapy

ON THE COUCH • by David Van Vranken

March 31, 2018Every Day Fiction 6 Comments

All I can remember is pitch blackness accompanied by an odd warmth. It felt close, unbearably so. The same warmth always comes. It comes but never goes. It lingers and becomes sickly sweet. Next comes the light — a bright,… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories clowns, David Van Vranken, psychotherapy

THE NEW STANDARD • by Joshua Joseph Barella

September 15, 2017Every Day Fiction 20 Comments

Getwright and I were in the DFAC one day — this was before deployment, pre-mob maybe. He looked over and said to me, And every year when the goslings hatch dad lets the hounds after them. Separate mother goose from… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Joshua Joseph Barella, psychotherapy, robots, veterans

WEDGE SANDAL • by Wayne Scheer

February 12, 2017Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

The first time I threw a shoe at my shrink was right after he claimed I was “prone to fits of irrational behavior.” That was his opinion after a year of therapy. Considering his fee, I expected more than what… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Romance, Stories proposals, psychotherapy, shoes, Wayne Scheer

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