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THE GIFT • by Deena Lee Davis

January 8, 2023Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Pat Carlisle knew for a long time that her sister Rose Marie was a clairvoyant fake, a marketing genius, and a master of manipulation. The Psychic Rose found quick success by utilizing a classy website with a chat button. For… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal cancer, Deena Lee Davis, psychics, siblings

CHARLIE’S BROTHER • by Jim Anderson

October 29, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I opened the curtains. Charlie, in his giant recliner, flinched, as if I’d thrown a bucket of water in his face. “What’re you doing here?” “Letting in the light, bro,” I said. “It’s good to see you, too.” Charlie wore… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death of a parent, illness, Jim Anderson, siblings

NEWFANGLED IDEAS • by Louise Head

July 7, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I am hungry because Wendy told me I can’t eat before she draws my blood. My waiting room overlooks the blue Pacific. I had asked Wendy several times if I could come to visit her here, but she was evasive… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories biotechnology, Louise Head, siblings

PAINTING IN PEACE • by Arlan Gerig

June 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I sit in front of the blank canvas. There’s only a bright sun in its top right corner. My brush sits full of lemon yellow paint, but a dark tempest dominates my mind. I get gooseflesh as I replay Chuck’s… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Arlan Gerig, art, artists, siblings, sign language, violent crime

YOUR BROTHER’S PHONE • by Roberta Kay

May 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You carry his phone in your pocket. Its weight, the closest you have now to holding his hand. Taking it out, you glance through his pictures, read his texts. The phone is still alive. To shut it down would be… Continue Reading →

Stories death, Roberta Kay, siblings, smartphones, suicide

THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT GETTING A CAT • by Dawn Maria Muenchrath

April 29, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The thing you need to understand is none of us liked him from the start. That’s why we weren’t too choked when we first heard about the breakup. It’s not that we didn’t care about my sister. Really, we were… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Romance, Stories breaking up, cats, Dawn Maria Muenchrath, siblings

MY SISTER • by Mariam Dogar

April 10, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister always amazed me with her lack of interest in everything. She had asthma as a kid. Every winter, as I dragged myself out of bed to attend school, she would be allowed to sleep in late. She was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Mariam Dogar, siblings

WELL OF FIRE • by Jay Tyler

February 6, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The day my brother, Murdoch, stopped talking he looked down a well and saw something he wasn’t supposed to see. The well was on Old Man Mitchell’s property south of town where junk covered the front lawns. Murdoch heard about… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories Jay Tyler, siblings

THE CALIBER OF HOPE • by Michael Pikna

January 18, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I work a mixture of peat and shredded leaves into the hole, then arrange the bulbs pointy end up before blanketing them with a few inches of dirt. Planting crocuses is supposed to keep me from offing myself in the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories child abuse, death of a parent, Michael Pikna, sex workers, siblings

BREAKING BALL • by Michael Snyder

January 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There’s this ball, pink-seamed and spinning fast, its coordinates locked on the northern perimeter of my left eye socket. All the proof I need that God hates me. No surprise, as my earthly father was never that fond of me… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories baseball, death, fathers, grief, siblings, sports

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