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A DINER AT NIGHT • by Savannah Pearson

March 1, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Six firemen slouch in oily booths, still sooty, roaring behind egg sandwiches. Fists bang, eggs burst and drizzle, and helmets spin around like tortoise shells. They wheeze, laughing, because new guy burned his tongue. “It’s third degree,” he moans, as… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal food servers, restaurants, Savannah Pearson, suicide

NO COMPROMISE • by Mel Fawcett

January 14, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

They hadn’t even ordered any food yet and Kate was already wishing she had stayed at home. Her date, older than his photograph, was lecturing her on a film that she “ought to see”. Is this what she had bought… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories dating, first date, Mel Fawcett, restaurants

A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME • by David Lowis

August 21, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Camila was used to men trying to impress her on first dates so she wasn’t surprised when Ryan suggested they go to the most expensive Italian restaurant in town. They agreed to meet outside Graccina’s at 7 p.m. Even from… Continue Reading →

Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Stories David Lowis, first date, restaurants

SCANDALOUS LUSH • by Linda Saldaña

April 8, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Rhonda preferred to think of herself as a scandalous lush, which sounded more acceptable, more Dorothy Parkeresque, than what her last lover (hardly a heartthrob, but good company on at least two memorable occasions) had called her — which was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories alcoholism, Christmas Eve, dogs, food servers, homelessness, Linda Saldaña, restaurants

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE HUNTER • by Joel C. Scoberg

October 25, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Malcolm ‘Stakeman’ Gribble didn’t look like a vampire hunter. He looks like someone who lives in their mother’s basement, thought Aneira, as she watched him eat through the roadside diner’s misted window. He had long, greasy brown hair, milk bottle… Continue Reading →

Horror, Humour / Satire, Stories food, Joel C. Scoberg, restaurants, vampire hunters, vampires

THE MAN BY THE RIVER • by Quinn Baker

February 24, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I used to wash dishes at an upscale restaurant. The type of place where the help was supposed to stay hidden from the customers in case our existence would offend them. The restaurant resided next to a river that was… Continue Reading →

Horror, Mystery / Suspense, Stories food servers, homelessness, Quinn Baker, restaurants

TWO TOP • by Mary Kay Holmes

August 8, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I sat, staring at the empty pleather bench on the other side of the table, washing my huevos rancheros down with crafty beer and glancing at the clock on my iPhone. It had been fifteen minutes since he went outside… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories addiction, food servers, Mary Kay Holmes, relationship problems, restaurants

DIRTY DISHES • by Mary-Anne Nelligan

July 24, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I really thought that Olivia and I were best friends. But, she didn’t make me a bridesmaid for her wedding. During her engagement party, the eight girls in her wedding party all wore matching bracelets. Rose gold and delicate. It… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories education, job interviews, Mary-Anne Nelligan, restaurants

APPLE PIE • by DJ Tyrer

July 10, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Nobody could love somebody like her, Amy-Louise thought as she awkwardly squeezed herself into a booth. Daddy had always made that very clear to her, so the taunts of the good ol’ boys in the parking lot outside the diner… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories DJ Tyrer, food, food servers, happiness, restaurants

TIMESHARE • by Tim Boiteau

June 24, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We zig-zag along a crooked stone bridge towards the tavern. Mist blankets the water, which is riotous with koi, though it’s a clear day elsewhere — a hologrammic projection of the weather from hundreds of years ago. Our daughter, Ruyi,… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories, Surreal China, dementia, parenting, restaurants, Shanghai, Tim Boiteau

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