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THE ASSEMBLY • by Shawn Van Horn

March 18, 2019Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

I sat at my desk in Miss Austin’s class, engrossed in yet another book. We’d just been assigned Where the Red Fern Grows yesterday, and I was already halfway through it. I forced myself to detach from the fictional world… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Stories school, Shawn Van Horn

274 DAYS • by M.A. Scudiero

December 10, 2017Every Day Fiction 11 Comments

Two hundred and seventy-four days. That was how long Samantha had been waiting. Seconds slowly ticked away as Samantha re-checked the clock. Days felt even longer in school. She tried listening to her algebra teacher talk about theorems and equations,… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories M.A. Scudiero, school, veterans, Veterans Day

WEIRD PETS • by Clint Lowe

November 27, 2017Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

As soon as Miss Kate left detention class for the toilet, Edelle scrambled over to Leah. “Flippidy books,” Edelle said, and flung Leah’s hardbacks from her desk, spreading them on the ground. Jaryd sat cowering in his seat, drawing squiggly… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories bullying, Clint Lowe, ferrets, school

SCHOOL OF THOUGHTS • by Daniel J. Kramer

September 17, 2017Every Day Fiction 29 Comments

“Welcome to the Academy,” the Chancellor announced. His voice was echoed by the crowd’s applause, whose eclipsing thunder reduced his volume to that of a whisper. I was in that crowd, but clapping softly. When asked by the admissions officer… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Daniel J. Kramer, education, school, teachers, time travel

ON BEAUTY • by Madhumitha Koduvalli

May 16, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

The first winter, she was ten. The world was made white. She watched the glass fog up around her face, and her nose grew numb. She closed her eyes and heard her grandmother’s voice from far away, from the summer,… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories America, immigration, India, Madhumitha Koduvalli, racism, school

COME FLY WITH ME • by Phyllis Rudin

January 19, 2016Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

“My father’s a writer.” When Seth’s turn came around in class he said what he’d been taught to say. He could have more truthfully announced, “My father’s in marketing,” but no, his parents had drilled the writer line into him,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bullying, family, Phyllis Rudin, school

PINKIES & CLAY • by Jennifer Todhunter

September 29, 2015Every Day Fiction 22 Comments

Leon’s pinky wraps around my pinky underneath the desk.  Our hands hang linked in the gap between our laps; his warm, mine cold. Facing forward, I wonder if he’s looking at me. Wonder what sort of eyes go with his… Continue Reading →

Romance, Stories art, blindness, Jennifer Todhunter, school

FILLIES AND FELLAS • by Sean Jones

December 9, 2014Every Day Fiction 82 Comments

The dilemma — I knew even as a nine-year-old boy to be a “good problem” — was I’d unwrapped a blue plastic horse from Mrs. Golding during the fourth-grade classroom Christmas party and all the girls wanted horses, as girls… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories fourth grade, gifts, holiday parties, school, Sean Jones

EXPONENTIAL DECAY • by C. Hall

May 21, 2014Every Day Fiction 22 Comments

He still sang Verdi in the shower. She listened and planned to leave him. Twenty years ago, when she was seventeen and smitten, she’d considered his singing romantic: her elegant, cultured calculus teacher serenading her while he soaped his graying… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories C. Hall, high school, school, teachers

TRAMPLED • by Harding McFadden

June 29, 2013Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

“Jacob, Julien, Esther…” Of all the things in all of the world that Marinette could do, her most favorite thing of all was to sit in the center of the patch of flowers behind her school at recess and name… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal Harding McFadden, school

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